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Thule (other)
Thule ( , , ) was, in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography, a semi-mythical place located in the far north, usually an island. Thule may also refer to: People * Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit Places * Thule, Greenland * Thule Harbor, Greenland * Thule Island, in the South Sandwich Islands * Thule Islands, a group of Antarctic islands * Mount Thule, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada; a mountain * 279 Thule, an asteroid * ''Thule'', the smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth, nicknamed ''Ultima Thule'' at the time of the ''New Horizons'' flyby Fictional locations * Thule, a fictional version of Greenland in the ''Kinderen van Moeder Aarde'' novels by Dutch writer Thea Beckman Companies and organizations * Thule Group, a Sweden-based company which designs and manufactures outdoor and cargo products * Thule Society, a German occultist group and forerunner of the Nazi Party * White Order of Thule, an American white supremacist group Military * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thule
Thule ( grc-gre, Θούλη, Thoúlē; la, Thūlē) is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek literature, ancient Greek and Latin literature, Roman literature and cartography. Modern interpretations have included Orkney, Shetland, northern Scotland, the island of Saaremaa (Ösel) in Estonia, and the Norwegian island of Smøla (island), Smøla.Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch und Dieter Lelgemann: ''Germania und die Insel Thule. Die Entschlüsselung von Ptolemaios' "Atlas der Oikumene".'' Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010. In Classics, classical and medieval literature, ''ultima Thule'' (Latin "farthest Thule") acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world". By the Late Middle Ages and early modern period, the Greco-Roman Thule was often identified with the real Iceland or Greenland. Sometimes ''Ultima Thule'' was a Latin name for Greenland, when ''Thule'' was used for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
