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Thule island (Atlantic) 71 unknown - Θούλη

Θούλη - Thule, legendary island in the western ocean, unlocated

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Latitude: 60.333000
Longitude: -1.257000
Confidence: Nil

Greek name: Θούλη
Place ID: 000000UThu
Time period: RL
Region: Atlantic
Country: Great Britain
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule
Wikidata ID: Q671008
Trismegistos Geo: 19731

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Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem	§1200 Ocean is Britain †T island between Britain lying in the west and Thule to the east †T. They say but that the souls of the	-1000
Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades	§8.670 this very Thrascias, advancing towards the east The Aparctias wind blows over Thule,	-1000
Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades	§8.717 all the others. There are also thirty other isles, called Orcades, And Thule is the closest one to them, another very big island, Lying closest	-1000
Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid	§4.103 ait [4.enim] 'liceat Phrygio servire marito' et in georgicis 'tibi serviat ultima Thule '. quoque omnis iste mos coemptionis et citra nominis nuncupationem dotis datae	-1000
Silius Italicus, Punica	§3.595 deified Julii. The father of that family shall give Rome victory over Thule, unknown till then, and shall be the first to lead an	-215
Silius Italicus, Punica	§17.393 round the field with flying javelineers. Even so the woad-stained native of Thule drives his chariot armed with scythes round the close-packed ranks in battle.	-215
Juvenal, Satires	§15.93 ours, influence all. Gaul’s Eloquence is educating Britain’s lawyers, and even farthest Thule already talks of hiring its own professor of rhetoric. How should we	-72
Virgil, Georgics	§1.1 god of the vast sea, and sailors worship your powers, while furthest Thule serves you, and Tethys with all her waves wins you as son-in-law,	-30
Strabo, Geography	§1.4.2 from thence to the Dnieper, 5000; and thence to the parallel of Thule, which Pytheas says is six days' sail north from Britain, and	-1
Strabo, Geography	§1.4.3 near, — but that the Dnieper is under the same parallel as Thule, what man in his senses could ever agree to this? Pytheas,	-1
Strabo, Geography	§1.4.3 ever agree to this? Pytheas, who has given us the history of Thule, is known to be a man upon whom no reliance can	-1
Strabo, Geography	§1.4.3 us of many small islands round Britain, make no mention whatever of Thule . The length of Britain itself is nearly the same as that	-1
Strabo, Geography	§1.4.4 is that of Ierne. Consequently the far region in which Eratosthenes places Thule must be totally uninhabitable. By what guesswork he arrived at the conclusion	-1
Strabo, Geography	§1.4.4 what guesswork he arrived at the conclusion that between the latitude of Thule and the Dnieper there was a distance of 11,500 stadia I am	-1
Strabo, Geography	§1.4.5 we have said, reckoning its breadth from the extremity of Ethiopia to Thule, was forced to extend its length beyond the true limits, that	-1
Strabo, Geography	§2.4.1 is above 40,000 stadia in circumference. It is likewise he who describes Thule and other neighbouring places, where, according to him, neither earth, water, nor	-1
Strabo, Geography	§2.5.8 Marseilles affirms that the farthest country north of the British islands is Thule ; for which place he says the summer tropic and the arctic	-1
Strabo, Geography	§2.5.8 he records no other particulars concerning it; [he does not say] whether Thule is an island, or whether it continues habitable up to the point	-1
Strabo, Geography	§4.5.5 The account of Thule is still more uncertain, on account of its secluded situation; for they	-1
Pomponius Mela, Chorographia	§3.57 Thule is located near the coast of the Belcae, who are celebrated in	-1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 1-11	§2.77.1 winter. Pytheas of Marseilles writes that this occurs in the island of Thule, 6 days' voyage N. from Britain, and some declare it also	-1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 1-11	§2.112.2 the Tanais to the northward. Isidorus added 1,250 miles right on to Thule, which is a purely conjectural estimate. I understand that the territory	-1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 1-11	§4.30.1 or amber. The most remote of all that we find mentioned is Thule, in which, as we have previously stated, there is no night	-1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 1-11	§4.30.1 Dumna, Bergos, and, greater than all, Nerigos, from which persons embark for Thule . At one day's sail from Thule is the frozen ocean, which	-1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 1-11	§4.30.1 Nerigos, from which persons embark for Thule. At one day's sail from Thule is the frozen ocean, which by some is called the Cronian Sea.	-1

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