Historical place profile

Kokkinos

At Kokkinos (or Kótsinas) on Lemnos there is a mound-like promontory that projects into the Bay of Pourniá. Here was a once important Byzantine/Venetian castle that occupied the site of an earlier, Classical settlement.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:550657
Catalogue ID
pleiades:550657
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
39.938763, 25.282718
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

At Kokkinos (or Kótsinas) on Lemnos there is a mound-like promontory that projects into the Bay of Pourniá. Here was a once important Byzantine/Venetian castle that occupied the site of an earlier, Classical 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 A2 Kokkinos

Source and reuse

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Research path

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