Historical place profile
Kale Akte
Kale Akte was the site of a Sikel center that received an Ionian colony. The precise location of the ancient settlement is unknown, although it is placed in the area of Marina di Caronia.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462267
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462267
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.033091, 14.452670
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Kale Akte was the site of a Sikel center that received an Ionian colony. The precise location of the ancient settlement is unknown, although it is placed in the area of Marina di Caronia.
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 47 E2 Kale Akte
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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