Historical place profile
Demetrias (Magnesian)
This ancient city, located near modern Volos in Thessaly, was founded by Demetrios Poliorketes in the third century BCE and abandoned in the 6th century CE. Continuous human activity in the area can be traced back at least as early as the Neolithic.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540730
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540730
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.343481, 22.924029
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
This ancient city, located near modern Volos in Thessaly, was founded by Demetrios Poliorketes in the third century BCE and abandoned in the 6th century CE. Continuous human activity in the area can be traced back at least as early as the Neolithic.
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 D2 Demetrias
Source and reuse
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Research path
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