Historical place profile
La Galère
An ancient Greek village on the east end of the island of Porquerolles discovered through archaeological survey in the 1980s and dating to the first century BCE. Its ancient name is unknown.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:157857
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:157857
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 43.003821, 6.249032
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient Greek village on the east end of the island of Porquerolles discovered through archaeological survey in the 1980s and dating to the first century BCE. Its ancient name is unknown.
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 16 B3 La Galère
Source and reuse
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Research path
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