The Cassiterides (Greek: Κασσιτερίδες, meaning "Tin Islands", from κασσίτερος, kassíteros "tin") are an ancient geographical name used to refer to a group...

Herodotus described tin as coming from Northern European islands named the Cassiterides along the extreme borders of the world, suggesting very long-distance...

was a highly lucrative Phoenician trade with Britain for tin via the Cassiterides, whose location is unknown but may have been off the northwest coast...

Map of Europe based on Strabo's geography, showing the Cassiterides just off the northwest tip of Iberia where Herodotus believed tin originated in 450...

traded for Cornish tin in the 4th century BC. The Greeks referred to the Cassiterides, or "tin islands", and placed them near the west coast of Europe. The...

writers, including Herodotus, mention a group of islands which were called Cassiterides. Modern researchers suggest that they may refer to the British Isles...

took Rome in 87 BC. The geographer Strabo refers to a treatise on the Cassiterides, the semi-legendary Tin Islands regarded as situated somewhere near the...

the Brière, now joined by silt, could have been the location of the Cassiterides - islands mentioned in antiquity as the Phoenician source of tin. The...

100 mg/m3, tin is immediately dangerous to life and health. Chemistry portal Cassiterides (the mythical Tin Islands) Stannary Terne Tin pest Tin mining in Britain...

sailing in the Atlantic. Hanno the Navigator Periplus of Hanno Periplus Cassiterides Pliny the Elder, Natural History 2.169a Avienus, Rufius Festus and Murphy...

cibt 7 Water and tides and Gades 8 Water and tides and Gades cont. 9 Seleucus in Gades. 10 Story by Poseidonius of a tree found in Gades 11 Cassiterides...

the islands and peninsulas of western Galicia (probable origin of the Cassiterides island myth) and probably also gold. Incidentally, Avienus' Ora Maritima...

control of the Veneti. Britain was one of the places proposed for the Cassiterides, that is Tin Islands. Tin working continued throughout Roman occupation...

solis insulae, "the Isles of the Sun". The islands may correspond to the Cassiterides ('Tin Isles'), believed by some to have been visited by the Phoenicians...

roofing supply stores.[citation needed] International Tin Council Tinning Cassiterides Tin pest Simpson, Pamela H. (1999). Cheap, Quick, & Easy: Imitative Architectural...

instead a strait separating California from the rest of the Americas. Cassiterides 430 BC Ancient source of Phoenician tin. Exact location unknown but thought...

originated in Cornwall, UK. Britain is one of the places proposed for the Cassiterides, that is "Tin Islands", first mentioned by Herodotus. The tin content...

them the Astures." He also mentioned the fabulous isles of tin, the Cassiterides, as situated among these Celtici. The Celtici Supertarmarci have also...

and their deposits of silver and tin (which he assumed were the Ilhas Cassitérides, or in English, the Islands of Tin). Van Huerter convinced 15 other men...

like renaming the hero from Cealwyn to Revak and turning him from a Cassiterides Celtic prince to an Iberian prince from fictional Penda island, named...

them the Astures." He also wrote that the fabulous isles of tin, the Cassiterides, were situated among these Celtici. The Celtici Supertarmarci have also...

specifically), in the belief that Flores was part of the mythical Ihas Cassitérides (English: Islands of Silver and Tin). They made their homes in the small...

they sailed to Cornwall in Britain and the legendary Tin Islands, or Cassiterides, to buy tin from the natives, but this is unsubstantiated. The Phoenicians...

outstanding young man." The geographer Strabo refers to a treatise on the Cassiterides, the semi-legendary Tin Islands off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula...

Dumnonia were sometimes associated with the mythical islands of the Cassiterides such as the island of Ictis. Caldey Island history stretches back to...

Haegen and his supporters disembarked looking for the mythical Ilhas Cassitérides. After these colonists abandoned their settlement new pioneers in 1508...

Dumnonia were sometimes associated with the mythical islands of the Cassiterides such as the island of Ictis. Caldey Island Caldey Island history stretches...

deposits of silver and tin (referring to the islands as the fabled Ilhas Cassitérides or Islands of Tin). De Hurtere later convinced 15 impoverished Flemings...

identified with the Cassiterides ("Tin Islands"), the source of tin for Ancient Greece. See Tin sources and trade in ancient times and Cassiterides for a more...

traders from the eastern Mediterranean. It has been suggested that the Cassiterides or "Tin Islands" as recorded by Herodotus in 445 BC may have referred...