Historical place profile

Athenai

An ancient settlement located on the southern coast of the Black Sea. The subsequent modern village retained the ancient name until the 1920s, when it was given its current Turkish name Pazar (Zere province).

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:857050
Catalogue ID
pleiades:857050
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
41.172312, 40.874223
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

An ancient settlement located on the southern coast of the Black Sea. The subsequent modern village retained the ancient name until the 1920s, when it was given its current Turkish name Pazar (Zere province).

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 87 F3 Athenai

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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