Historical place profile
Larisa
An ancient settlement known to Strabo as a village (formerly a city) in the territory of Ephesus, but closer to Mt. Tmolus than to Ephesus itself. Modern scholars differ as to the precise location of Larisa, but agree in placing it between modern Tire and modern Bayındır in Turkey.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550684
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550684
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.150426, 27.697593
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement known to Strabo as a village (formerly a city) in the territory of Ephesus, but closer to Mt. Tmolus than to Ephesus itself. Modern scholars differ as to the precise location of Larisa, but agree in placing it between modern Tire and modern Bayındır in Turkey.
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 F5 Larisa
Source and reuse
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Research path
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