Historical place profile
Europos
An ancient city in Macedonia. The known components of the site (acropolis, extensive necropolis) are located immediately south of the modern town.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:491595
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:491595
- Place type
- acropolis, archaeological-site, cemetery, settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.886650, 22.555202
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city in Macedonia. The known components of the site (acropolis, extensive necropolis) are located immediately south of the modern town.
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 50 C3 Europos
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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