Historical place profile
Ithome/Thamiai (Thessaly)
A town in the Hestiaiotis region between Metropolis and Gomphoi. Now modern Phanari, where the visible architecture on the acropolis largely belongs to Byzantine and Ottoman fortresses.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540841
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540841
- Place type
- fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.415547, 21.801837
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A town in the Hestiaiotis region between Metropolis and Gomphoi. Now modern Phanari, where the visible architecture on the acropolis largely belongs to Byzantine and Ottoman fortresses.
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 55 B2 Ithome/Thamiai
Source and reuse
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Research path
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