Historical place profile
Metropolis? (settlement)
The modern village of Palaiomanina in the West Greek regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania may be identifiable with "Metropolis", a settlement known from ancient sources.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:531000
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:531000
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 38.553358, 21.245698
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The modern village of Palaiomanina in the West Greek regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania may be identifiable with "Metropolis", a settlement known from ancient sources.
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 54 D4 Metropolis?
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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