Historical place profile
Monte Adranone (Adranon?)
An indigenous center of the eighth to fourth centuries B.C. that became Hellenized, Monte Adranone in Sicily is probably to be identified with the ancient name Adranon, but not to be confused with another Sicilian Adranon (located to the east at modern Adrano).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462073
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462073
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.686710, 13.141014
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An indigenous center of the eighth to fourth centuries B.C. that became Hellenized, Monte Adranone in Sicily is probably to be identified with the ancient name Adranon, but not to be confused with another Sicilian Adranon (located to the east at modern Adrano).
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 47 C3 Adranon?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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