Menosgada, meaning town above the Main valley, was a Celtic settlement on the upper Main river in what is now Bavaria, Germany, recorded by the Greek geographer Ptolemy and probably located on the hill known today as the Staffelberg. Celts had settled the Staffelberg from the first millennium BC, expanding an early fortification around 200 BC into an oppidum of 49 hectares with substantial defenses, before the settlement was abandoned around 50 BC amid Roman expansion into the region.
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1. Menosgada (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 50.0922, longitude 11.0247
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 11.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 11.25
50.25 11.25 Cfb
3. GeoNames: Bad Staffelstein - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2829701, nearest place to the city coordinates (1.99 km)Quote, cities500 record 2829701, nearest place to the city coordinates (1.99 km)
50.10199 11.00128 P PPL DE 02 094 09478 09478165 10618 274 282 Europe/Berlin
Menosgada
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Bavaria; continent follows from the atlas record for Bavaria
the neighbouring Jura lands. Menosgada was the northernmost oppidum in Bavaria
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