Historical place profile
Akra
An ancient Greek city on the Kerch Strait whose remains are now largely submerged. The surveyed and excavated portions of the city, including fortification walls and other structures, lie on and offshore from an unnamed cape, south of the modern village of Naberezhnoye/Naberezhne, that separates the open waters of the strait from the Yanysh-Ghol Salt Lake.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:854663
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:854663
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 45.133280, 36.424130
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient Greek city on the Kerch Strait whose remains are now largely submerged. The surveyed and excavated portions of the city, including fortification walls and other structures, lie on and offshore from an unnamed cape, south of the modern village of Naberezhnoye/Naberezhne, that separates the open waters of the strait from the Yanysh-Ghol Salt Lake.
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 87 K2 Akra
Source and reuse
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Research path
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