Historical place profile
Kastri (Syros)
The fortified settlement of Kastri near Chalandriani on the Cycladic island of Syros is an important Early Cycladic II site. This fortified hill-top settlement is a very early example of a site in the Aegean with a fortification wall reinforced by means of stone bastions.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:30347987
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:30347987
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.490676, 24.934211
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The fortified settlement of Kastri near Chalandriani on the Cycladic island of Syros is an important Early Cycladic II site. This fortified hill-top settlement is a very early example of a site in the Aegean with a fortification wall reinforced by means of stone bastions.
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: Pleiades
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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