Historical place profile
Chalia
Theopompus mentions Chalia as a town of Boeotia. It is also attested epigraphically and may have been a member of the Boeotian league. Fossey locates the city in the vicinity of the church of Agios Minas in modern Drosia. Archaeological finds in the area indicate human activity from as early as the Bronze Age.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540705
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540705
- Place type
- church-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.488316, 23.572379
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Theopompus mentions Chalia as a town of Boeotia. It is also attested epigraphically and may have been a member of the Boeotian league. Fossey locates the city in the vicinity of the church of Agios Minas in modern Drosia. Archaeological finds in the area indicate human activity from as early as the Bronze Age.
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 55 F4 Chalia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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