Historical place profile
Lyktos
An ancient settlement on Crete, located just east of modern Xydas/Xidas, with which it is sometimes conflated. The city is mentioned in Homer and seems to have flourished in Hellenistic and Roman times, at least.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:589918
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:589918
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.208100, 25.368200
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement on Crete, located just east of modern Xydas/Xidas, with which it is sometimes conflated. The city is mentioned in Homer and seems to have flourished in Hellenistic and Roman times, at least.
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 60 D2 Lyktos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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