Historical place profile
Akragas/Agrigentum
Akragas/Agrigentum was an ancient city of Sicily and is now known as Agrigento. The Archaeological Area of Agrigento was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462086
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462086
- Place type
- church, ekklesiasterion, settlement, temple
- Coordinates
- 37.290594, 13.585475
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Akragas/Agrigentum was an ancient city of Sicily and is now known as Agrigento. The Archaeological Area of Agrigento was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
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 47 D4 Akragas/Agrigentum
Source and reuse
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Research path
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