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...

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...

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...

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