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Pylae
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[1] Pylae Gadeirides The Straits of Gibralter

(Πύλαι Γαδειρίδες; Pýlai Gadeirídes). The Straits of Gibraltar; the sound (saddle depth 286 m), which is about 60 km long and at its narrowest point 13 km wide, lies between the southern tip of the Spanish Peninsula and the continent of Africa, and between the Mediterranean (Mare nostrum) in the east and Oceanus in the we…

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Barceló, Pedro (Potsdam), Wiesehöfer, Josef (Kiel), Hild, Friedrich (Vienna), Olshausen, Eckart (Stuttgart) and Sauer, Vera (Stuttgart), “Pylae”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 02 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1015020>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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