Ras Teyonas
Coordinates: 31 ° 57 ′ 6 ″ N , 19 ° 56 ′ 38.7 ″ E
Ras Teyonas or Cape Tajuni is a cape at the easternmost point of the Great Syrte south of Benghazi in Libya .
In ancient geography the cape was called Boreion arkon ( Βόρειον ἄκρον ) or in Latin Boreum Promontorium . The cape is mentioned in Strabon Geographika 17 p. 836, Pliny Naturalis historia 5, 4 and Claudius Ptolemy Geographia 4, 4, 3
literature
- Philip Smith: Boreum . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
- Eugen Oberhummer : Boreion 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 730.