Historical place profile
Lychnidos
Lychnidos (modern Ohrid, Macedonia) was an ancient city. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 and 1980 for both its cultural and natural heritage.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:481900
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:481900
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.114619, 20.793813
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Lychnidos (modern Ohrid, Macedonia) was an ancient city. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 and 1980 for both its cultural and natural heritage.
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 49 C2 Lychnidos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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