Historical place profile
*Istlada
Ruins of an ancient town located in a now-uninhabited forest area near the modern Turkish town of Kapaklı in the Demre district of Antalya province. Its ancient name is known only from fragmentary epigraphic sources of the Hellenistic period, but archaeological investigation has demonstrated occupation and development from the 3rd century BCE through late antiquity, with some modest habitation continuing in the medieval period.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:638874
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:638874
- Place type
- ruin, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.218404, 29.887755
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ruins of an ancient town located in a now-uninhabited forest area near the modern Turkish town of Kapaklı in the Demre district of Antalya province. Its ancient name is known only from fragmentary epigraphic sources of the Hellenistic period, but archaeological investigation has demonstrated occupation and development from the 3rd century BCE through late antiquity, with some modest habitation continuing in the medieval 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 65 C5 *Istlada
Source and reuse
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Research path
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