Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (30 March - 6 April 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 30 new and 319 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Ilaria Cristofaro, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel Mckee, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-30-march-6-april-2026

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 26 new and 207 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 12 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of the new ones. Authored by Tom Elliott (@[email protected]) and Divya Kumar-Dumas, we now have a place resource for Mamallapuram, an ancient settlement and modern town located on the east coast of peninsular India. It is the site of a large complex of Hindu temples dating to the 7th/8th centuries CE that is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/119192778.

The city is mentioned in Tamil literature beginning in the 8th century CE. The exact location of the city's harbor and its possible identification with non-Tamil sources (especially Roman ones) remain inconclusive.

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Here's a highlight from today's "Last Week in Pleiades": the Aequimelium, which "may have once been the site of the house of one Spurius Maelius, a Roman citizen of the fifth century BCE who was slain for the crime of wanting to be a king": https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/646121066

Check out the full list of this week's updates and debuts -- the work of 12 contributors and editors -- on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-23-30-march-2026

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (23-30 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 34 new and 154 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Mattia D’Acri, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Maria Del Rocio Da Riva Muñoz, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-23-30-march-2026

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 21 new and 50 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one user's contributions over the past few months (and continuing). Since joining the Pleiades team in 2025, Enes Yılandiloğlu has provided 488 new name entries for existing place resources (mostly in Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, and pre-19th century English), as well as 9 entirely new place resources.

Names: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Creator=enesy&portal_type%3Alist=Name&review_state%3Alist=published

Places: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Creator=enesy&portal_type%3Alist=Place&review_state%3Alist=published

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Folks, the #PleiadesGazetteer has been nominated for the annual DH awards in the "dataset or model" category. There are, as always, many fantastic and important projects in all the categories. If you use or have otherwise benefited from Pleiades, I hope you will consider casting a vote for it before voting closes.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj2_oFbryOurCVvVbBq6M3tY5POjhpWwFRcthZ9T8HDNjQYw/viewform

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Boosts appreciated.

From Gabriel Moss on Bsky: "Excited to announce the Ancient World Mapping Center's new collection of blank "map quiz bases" for use in the history classroom. While designed for ancient studies, the maps are period-neutral, and can be adapted for a wide variety of courses."

https://awmc.unc.edu/map-quiz-bases/

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (16-23 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 108 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Ilaria Cristofaro, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee, John Muccigrosso, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-16-23-march-2026

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 20 new and 89 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 13 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of them. Authored by Gabriel Mckee (@SecretTerror), we now have a place resource for Ballicaoluk, a fortified site constructed on hill on the eastern slope of Nif Mountain in Turkey's İzmir province: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/818747000

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (9-16 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 89 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee, Gethin Rees, R. Scott Smith, Nicolas Souchon, Richard Talbert, Valeria Vitale and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-9-16-march-2026

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