Historical place profile
Ilici/Helike
The site of Ilici began as a pre-Roman settlement that eventually developed into a Roman municipium. The site continued into the Visigothic and Byzantine periods as a minor urban settlement, controlling a vast territory which reached old Lucentum. The settlement was relocated to the modern site of Elche in the Islamic period.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:265922
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:265922
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.239600, -0.695300
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The site of Ilici began as a pre-Roman settlement that eventually developed into a Roman municipium. The site continued into the Visigothic and Byzantine periods as a minor urban settlement, controlling a vast territory which reached old Lucentum. The settlement was relocated to the modern site of Elche in the Islamic period.
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 27 E3 Ilici/Helike/Ecclesia Elotana
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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