Historical place profile
Apollonia
An ancient road station and settlement along the Via Egnatia in Mygdonia, between Amphipolis and Thessaoniki. Located near the modern municipality of Nea Apollonia in the Thessaloniki province of Greece. Possibly at a location now called Polina (Papazoglou) or a site between Nea Apollonia and Kokkalou excavated by Hatzopoulos in the early 1990s.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:491526
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:491526
- Place type
- settlement, station
- Coordinates
- 40.623703, 23.469685
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient road station and settlement along the Via Egnatia in Mygdonia, between Amphipolis and Thessaoniki. Located near the modern municipality of Nea Apollonia in the Thessaloniki province of Greece. Possibly at a location now called Polina (Papazoglou) or a site between Nea Apollonia and Kokkalou excavated by Hatzopoulos in the early 1990s.
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 50 D3 Apollonia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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