Historical place profile
Abia
An ancient coastal city of Messenia that modern scholars locate in an area known in modern times as Palaiochora, i.e., in the modern village that now takes its name from the ancient one. Ruins of a medieval (Venetian?) castle are generally assumed to have been built on the ancient site.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570027
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570027
- Place type
- castle, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 36.965191, 22.142323
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient coastal city of Messenia that modern scholars locate in an area known in modern times as Palaiochora, i.e., in the modern village that now takes its name from the ancient one. Ruins of a medieval (Venetian?) castle are generally assumed to have been built on the ancient site.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 C4 Abia
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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