Historical place profile
Isinda (Lycian)
Ruins of the walled acropolis of ancient Isinda in Lycia are variously said by modern scholars to be located either "above" or 2-3km south of the modern Turkish village of Belenli, which is in Antalya province. BAtlas and OpenStreetMap generally agree (within their accuracy and precision limits) with the location further south.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:638871
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:638871
- Place type
- archaeological-site, fortified-settlement, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.178970, 29.705004
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ruins of the walled acropolis of ancient Isinda in Lycia are variously said by modern scholars to be located either "above" or 2-3km south of the modern Turkish village of Belenli, which is in Antalya province. BAtlas and OpenStreetMap generally agree (within their accuracy and precision limits) with the location further south.
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 65 C5 Isinda
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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