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Preferred term

Pillars of Hercules  

Synonym(s)

  • Columns of Hercules
  • Hercules, Columns of
  • Hercules, Pillars of

Scope note

  • two promontories at the entrance to Strait of Gibraltar; marked the limit of the known world in antiquity

Notation

  • 28150

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/45G-KNMM75ZM-B

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