Tomis

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Greek colony Roman city ancient city

Tomis was an ancient Greek and later Roman city on the Black Sea coast, in present-day Constanța, Romania, best known as the remote outpost where the poet Ovid was exiled by Emperor Augustus.

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Label Occurrences
Tomis canonical 10

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek colony ⓘ
Roman city ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ
approximateLocation western coast of the Black Sea ⓘ
associatedWith Tristia ⓘ
surface form: Ovid's exile poetry
coastOn Black Sea ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
country Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece

Roman Empire ⓘ
culture Ancient Greek culture ⓘ
Roman culture ⓘ
economy maritime trade ⓘ
exiledPerson Ovid ⓘ
exileOrderedBy Augustus ⓘ
surface form: Emperor Augustus
foundedBy Greek colonists ⓘ
greekName Τόμις ⓘ
hasNotableResident Ovid ⓘ
hasType port city ⓘ
historicalStatus Greek colonial settlement ⓘ
Roman provincial city ⓘ
knownFor exile of Ovid ⓘ
remote outpost of the Roman Empire ⓘ
languageUsed Greek ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
latinName Tomis self-link ⓘ
locatedIn Black Sea coast ⓘ
Moesia ⓘ
Romania ⓘ
Scythia Minor ⓘ
Constanța ⓘ
surface form: present-day Constanța
locatedInPresentDay Romania ⓘ
locatedOn western Black Sea littoral ⓘ
modernCountry Romania ⓘ
modernMunicipality Constanța ⓘ
modernSuccessor Constanța ⓘ
partOf Black Sea region ⓘ
Roman province of Moesia ⓘ
Roman province of Scythia Minor ⓘ
presentInWork Epistulae ex Ponto ⓘ
Tristia ⓘ
region Dobruja ⓘ
religion Ancient Greek religion ⓘ
Roman religion ⓘ
timePeriod Antiquity ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ovid → placeOfExile → Tomis ⓘ
Constanța → formerlyKnownAs → Tomis ⓘ
Tristia → setting → Tomis ⓘ
Epistulae ex Ponto → placeOfWriting → Tomis ⓘ
Epistulae ex Ponto → setIn → Tomis ⓘ
Tomis → latinName → Tomis self-link ⓘ
Moesia Inferior → capital → Tomis ⓘ
Moesia Inferior → importantCity → Tomis ⓘ
Scythia Minor → hasMajorCity → Tomis ⓘ
Scythia Minor → capitalUnderRomanRule → Tomis ⓘ