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The following work has been added to the Pleiades Zotero library and the quick-lookup tool that contributors use when creating references in the gazetteer: GazAncArab

Annamaria De Santis and Irene Rossi, eds. Gazetteer of Ancient Arabia. With Giulia Buono, Alessandra Lombardi, Jérémie […]
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Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-08. Today we checked 63 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]
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Export Updates 2025-10-08:
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52 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

46bde755 - updated json
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The following work has been added to the Pleiades Zotero library and the quick-lookup tool that contributors use when creating references in the gazetteer: Acts (DBG online)

“Apostelgeschichte.” In "Read Bible." Deutsche Bibel Gesellschaft, n.d. Accessed October 8, 2025 […]
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The following work has been added to the Pleiades Zotero library and the quick-lookup tool that contributors use when creating references in the gazetteer: Tac. Ger. (Anderson: PHI)

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius. “De Origine et Situ Germanorum.” In Cornelii Taciti Opera minora, edited by Henry […]
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The following work has been added to the Pleiades Zotero library and the quick-lookup tool that contributors use when creating references in the gazetteer: SenPhil (Zierlein: PHI)

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, and Otto Zwierlein. L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae: incertorum auctorum Hercules (Oetaeus) […]
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The following work has been added to the quick-lookup tool that Pleiades contributors use when creating references in the gazetteer. The work has been cataloged in the project Zotero library since 2018: Hor. Carm. (Klingner: PHI), i.e., Horace's Carmina

Q. Horati Flacci Opera. Edited by […]
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The data quality reports that are part of the regular "pleiades.datasets" updates have been adjusted as follows: logic has been modified for modern name omission tests in order to stop counting as errors those places that are marked 'unlocated', since there may well be no associated modern name […]
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Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-07. Today we checked 119 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]
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Pleiades gazetteer changelog for September 2025:

During the month of September 2025, the Pleiades editorial college published 55 new and 682 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Johan Åhlfeldt, Canan Arıkan-Caba, Jeffrey Becker, Iulian Bîrzescu, Catherine Bouras, Anthony Durham, Tom […]
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Export Updates 2025-10-07:
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4 new and 26 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

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24725dbb - updated json
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Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (29 September - 6 October 2025): The Pleiades editorial college published 17 new and 210 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle […]

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from northern Europe and the Strait of Gibraltar in the northwest to Sri Lanka in the southeast.
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Export Updates 2025-10-06:
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1 new and 110 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

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3aa3de10 - updated json
355dafc6 - updated rdf/ttl
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The following work has been added to the Pleiades Zotero library and the quick-lookup tool that contributors use when creating references in the gazetteer: Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire (CHRE)

Chris Howgego and Andrew Wilson, eds. Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire. With Cristian Gazdac […]
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The following term has been added to the Pleiades gazetteer Place/Feature Type vocabulary: battlefield (as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus)

Pleiades: https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/place-types/battlefield

Getty AAT […]
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The #pleiadesgazetteer linked data sidebar project continues to grow. As of 3 October 2025, 21,757 unique Pleiades place resources display the sidebar. They include 37,083 inbound links from 18 external datasets and websites. 14,073 of these links are reciprocated by Pleiades references.

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Export Updates 2025-10-03:
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3 new and 49 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

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87ba945c - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
f32cbfef - updated gis […]
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