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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/58221| Title: | The Graeco-Roman city of Gozo : Gavlos Oppidum |
| Authors: | Bezzina, John |
| Keywords: | Gozo (Malta) -- History -- Classical period, 218 B.C.-535 A.D. Names, Geographical -- Malta -- Gozo Fortification -- Malta -- Gozo Architecture, Roman -- Malta -- Gozo |
| Issue Date: | 1976 |
| Publisher: | De La SaIle Brothers Publications |
| Citation: | Bezzina, J. (1976). The Graeco-Roman city of Gozo : Gavlos Oppidum. In: B. Hilary (ed.), The Malta Year Book 1976. Malta: De La SaIle Brothers Publications, pp. 384-388. |
| Abstract: | In the island of Gozo according to Diodorus, the Greeks built a town, which according to Ptolemy was given the same name as the island : Glauconis insula et civitas. Canon Agius De Soldanis infers, that it originally extended towards the south over to Putirjal in ll-Habel Tal-lsptar to Bieb il-Ghajn where one of its four gates was, to Wara s-Sur near St. Augustine's and towards the West, up to Bieb il-Gharb, whilst to the North, to the East and North West it was bounded by the valleys of Tal-Harrax and Ta' Gelmus. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/58221 |
| Appears in Collections: | Malta Yearbook : 1976 |
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