Historical place profile
Kato Tritos
A modern village on the Aegean island of Lesbos. Remains of ancient houses have been noted in the area. Its modern name may preserve an ancient toponym preserved on a late-antique inscription. For these reasons, BAtlas followed Kontes 1978 in identifying it as the general area of a late antique settlement.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550630
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550630
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 39.086831, 26.433741
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A modern village on the Aegean island of Lesbos. Remains of ancient houses have been noted in the area. Its modern name may preserve an ancient toponym preserved on a late-antique inscription. For these reasons, BAtlas followed Kontes 1978 in identifying it as the general area of a late antique settlement.
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 56 C3 Kato Tritos
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
Compare this place with the chronological map at the relevant year, nearby political units, routes, institutions and the period portals. Where the source record is silent about jurisdiction, population or ecclesiastical rank, this profile makes no such claim.