Historical place profile
Magnesia ad Sipylum
Magnesia ad Sipylum was an ancient city in Lydia in Asia Minor (modern Manisa in Turkey). Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus defeated Antiochus the Great at the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550706
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550706
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 38.612579, 27.433397
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Magnesia ad Sipylum was an ancient city in Lydia in Asia Minor (modern Manisa in Turkey). Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus defeated Antiochus the Great at the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC.
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 E4 Magnesia ad Sipylum
Source and reuse
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Research path
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