Historical place profile
Asine
Located on the east coast of the Messenian peninsula of the Peloponnese, the ancient city of Asine is thought to have stood where the modern settlement of Koroni stands now. Based on spolia and topography, its acropolis was probably on the spot now occupied by a Venetian castle (itself having supplanted an earlier Byzantine fortress).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570125
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570125
- Place type
- castle, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.794507, 21.963271
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Located on the east coast of the Messenian peninsula of the Peloponnese, the ancient city of Asine is thought to have stood where the modern settlement of Koroni stands now. Based on spolia and topography, its acropolis was probably on the spot now occupied by a Venetian castle (itself having supplanted an earlier Byzantine fortress).
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 58 B4 Asine
Source and reuse
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Research path
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