Historical place profile
Mantineia/Antigoneia
Mantineia/Antigoneia was an ancient settlement in Greece most noted for being the site of two major battles. The First Battle of Mantineia was the largest land battle of the Peloponnesian War (418 B.C.) and the Second Battle of Mantineia brought an end to Theban hegemony (362 B.C.).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570459
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570459
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.617379, 22.392578
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Mantineia/Antigoneia was an ancient settlement in Greece most noted for being the site of two major battles. The First Battle of Mantineia was the largest land battle of the Peloponnesian War (418 B.C.) and the Second Battle of Mantineia brought an end to Theban hegemony (362 B.C.).
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 58 C2 Mantineia /Antigoneia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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