Historical place profile
Matalon
An ancient settlement and port on the south coast of Crete, now identified at modern Matala. Excavations have revealed an acropolis, tombs, a maritime slipway for a shipshed, a quarry, and fish tanks.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:589925
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:589925
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 34.992533, 24.749378
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement and port on the south coast of Crete, now identified at modern Matala. Excavations have revealed an acropolis, tombs, a maritime slipway for a shipshed, a quarry, and fish tanks.
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 C3 Matalon
Source and reuse
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Research path
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