Historical place profile
Mali
Near modern Khostia/Prodromos in Boeotia, Máli is the modern name of a peak on a ridgeline where extensive remains of an ancient site, possibly a "refuge site" for the polis of Khorsiai, have been discovered. The population of Khorsiai are thought to have relocated back to the original nucleus of the community at nearby Kástron Khostíon sometime in the early Archaic period.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540928
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540928
- Place type
- acropolis, settlement, wall-2
- Coordinates
- 38.248220, 22.891719
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Near modern Khostia/Prodromos in Boeotia, Máli is the modern name of a peak on a ridgeline where extensive remains of an ancient site, possibly a "refuge site" for the polis of Khorsiai, have been discovered. The population of Khorsiai are thought to have relocated back to the original nucleus of the community at nearby Kástron Khostíon sometime in the early Archaic period.
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 55 D4 Mali
Source and reuse
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Research path
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