Historical place profile
Ambracia
Ambracia (modern Arta) was an ancient city of central Greece, founded as a colony of Corinth in the seventh century BCE. It was located near the Ambracian Gulf along the course of the river Arachthos.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:530794
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:530794
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.154924, 20.990093
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ambracia (modern Arta) was an ancient city of central Greece, founded as a colony of Corinth in the seventh century BCE. It was located near the Ambracian Gulf along the course of the river Arachthos.
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 54 C3 Ambracia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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