Historical place profile

Ithaca (settlement)

The ancient city of Ithaca on the homonymous Aegean island. Following RE, BAtlas locates it at the small, protected harbor of Polis on the island's northwest coast.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:530905
Catalogue ID
pleiades:530905
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
38.441930, 20.638399
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

The ancient city of Ithaca on the homonymous Aegean island. Following RE, BAtlas locates it at the small, protected harbor of Polis on the island's northwest coast.

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 54 C5 Ithaca

Source and reuse

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Research path

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