Historical place profile
Astron
An ancient settlement mentioned by Ptolemy and thought to have been located in the vicinity of the modern coastal town of Paralio Astros. The prominent remains of the castle immediately above the town date to the 17th or 18th century CE and are unrelated to both the ancient settlement and the Aeginetan fortification mentioned by Thucydides that some scholars associate with ancient Astron (RE).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570134
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570134
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 37.416349, 22.764431
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement mentioned by Ptolemy and thought to have been located in the vicinity of the modern coastal town of Paralio Astros. The prominent remains of the castle immediately above the town date to the 17th or 18th century CE and are unrelated to both the ancient settlement and the Aeginetan fortification mentioned by Thucydides that some scholars associate with ancient Astron (RE).
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 D3 Astron
Source and reuse
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Research path
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