Historical place profile
Kirra
An ancient port settlement located at modern Magoula Xeropigadas in the Greek municipality of Itea near where the Pleistos river debouches into the Corinthian Gulf. Classical Kirra has earlier, Helladic antecedents in this area.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540868
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540868
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.429577, 22.445553
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient port settlement located at modern Magoula Xeropigadas in the Greek municipality of Itea near where the Pleistos river debouches into the Corinthian Gulf. Classical Kirra has earlier, Helladic antecedents in this area.
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 C4 Kirra
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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