Historical place profile
Daphne
Described by Strabo as a village (katoikia) about 40 stadia (~6 km) outside Antioch, Daphne today is known as Harbiye, in Turkey's Hatay province. In ancient times, it was home to a sacred grove and sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis, but today there are no visible monumental structures of ancient date.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:658450
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:658450
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.133635, 36.137864
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Described by Strabo as a village (katoikia) about 40 stadia (~6 km) outside Antioch, Daphne today is known as Harbiye, in Turkey's Hatay province. In ancient times, it was home to a sacred grove and sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis, but today there are no visible monumental structures of ancient date.
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 67 C4 Daphne
Source and reuse
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Research path
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