Historical place profile
Aphrodisias (coastal settlement in Rough Cilicia)
An ancient coastal settlement of Rough Cilicia located at the south end of the isthmus that separates the modern Ovacık peninsula from mainland Turkey.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:648565
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:648565
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.157963, 33.685873
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient coastal settlement of Rough Cilicia located at the south end of the isthmus that separates the modern Ovacık peninsula from mainland Turkey.
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 66 D4 Aphrodisias
Source and reuse
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Research path
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