Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-23. Today we checked 28 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

Export Updates 2025-10-23: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 1 new and 27 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 25653451 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 8c7398c1 - updated gis […]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-21. Today we checked 48 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

Export Updates 2025-10-22: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 12 new and 36 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 200669fe - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 82efe062 - updated […]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-21. Today we checked 21 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

Export Updates 2025-10-21: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 32 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 0e668336 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 59a692ff - updated gis package […]

Last Week in Pleiades (13-20 October 2025): Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 4 new and 342 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and the […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-20. Today we checked 27 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

Export Updates 2025-10-20: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 32 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: cb1b0be7 - updated json 7e493ee6 - updated rdf/ttl 48ebd961 - updated gis […]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-17. Today we checked 69 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

Export Updates 2025-10-17: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 1 new and 76 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 7b9e428c - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 912faea2 - updated gis […]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-15. Yesterday we checked 206 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback […]

Export Updates 2025-10-15: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 1 new and 196 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 1da94186 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl b5255db9 - updated […]

The Pleiades managing editor has withdrawn an invalid place resource (PID 285459: Kh., see Kherba) that was inadvertently created from a cross-reference during import of data from the Barrington Atlas Directory in 2010. The old place resource has been replaced by a query for "Kherba" in titles […]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-14. Today we checked 86 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

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 2016: TIR Emerita Alarcão, Jorge de, Adela Cepas, José Ignacio Reguera Cardiel, and Angela Alonso […]

Export Updates 2025-10-14: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 1 new and 31 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: d859d297 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 3f08aee6 - updated gis […]

The Malayalam language, written in its standard writing system, has been added to the "name languages" vocabulary used for name resources in the Pleiades gazetteer. The IANA-registered code "ml" has been used for the entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/ancient-name-languages/ml

Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 October 2025): Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 10 new and 216 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Ryan M. Horne, Javier Martínez Jiménez […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Export Updates 2025-10-13: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 4 new and 88 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 174e9647 - updated json a3e7e647 - updated rdf/ttl 3c01a3c6 - […]

The Punjabi language, written in the Gurmukhi script, has been added to the "name languages" vocabulary used for name resources in the Pleiades gazetteer. The IANA-registered code "pa" has been used for the entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/ancient-name-languages/pa

Export Updates 2025-10-10: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 22 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 43628379 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 62bd5499 - updated gis package […]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-10. Today we checked 25 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now complete through 6am EDT on 2025-10-09. Today we checked 53 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine […]

New portrait images taken by @diffendale have been added via Flickr to the corresponding place resources in the #pleiadesgazetteer : Black Gloss plate with superposed decoration of a war elephant with calf from Capena, 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dandiffendale/54829908375 Pleiades […]

Export Updates 2025-10-09: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 2 new and 47 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: a93db5e4 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 20f88eed - updated gis […]

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 […]

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 […]

Export Updates 2025-10-08: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 52 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 46bde755 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl e5acd1e6 - updated gis package […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Export Updates 2025-10-07: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 4 new and 26 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 24725dbb - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 9c4ff4e7 - updated gis […]

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 […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Export Updates 2025-10-06: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 1 new and 110 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 3aa3de10 - updated json 355dafc6 - updated rdf/ttl bacb4fea - […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. Learn […]

Export Updates 2025-10-03: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 3 new and 49 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 87ba945c - updated json no change: rdf/ttl f32cbfef - updated gis […]

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