Historical place profile
Klazomenai (later)
A town in Lydia that, according to Pausanias, moved from an initial, mainland site thought by scholars to have been southwest of modern Urla Iskelesi to an island in the Bay of Smyrna (modern Klazümen). This place resource represents the later city; see also "Klazomenai (earlier)."
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550651
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550651
- Place type
- island, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.373048, 26.786620
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A town in Lydia that, according to Pausanias, moved from an initial, mainland site thought by scholars to have been southwest of modern Urla Iskelesi to an island in the Bay of Smyrna (modern Klazümen). This place resource represents the later city; see also "Klazomenai (earlier)."
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 D5 Klazomenai
Source and reuse
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Research path
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