| Cassiterides | |
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 Map of Europe based on Strabo's geography, showing the Cassiterides just off the northwest tip of Iberia | |
| In-universe information | |
| Type | Phantom island |
The Cassiterides (Greek: Κασσιτερίδες, meaning "Tin Islands", from κασσίτερος, kassíteros "tin") are an ancient geographical name used to refer to a group of islands whose precise location is unknown, but which was believed to be situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe.[1]
- ^ George Smith, The Cassiterides: An Inquiry into the Commercial Operations of the Phoenicians in Western Europe, 1860, a response to W. D. Cooley's published scepticism about the cherished opinion of the role of Cornwall as source of Phoenician tin, was reprinted in 2008.