Historical place profile
Monte Saraceno di Ravanusa (Kakyron?)
The ancient city of Kakyron, said to have been founded by the Sicani in the eighth century B.C., is probably to be identified with the remains of a fortified city, north of Licata, located on the western side of Sicily.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462266
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462266
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.255581, 13.984719
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The ancient city of Kakyron, said to have been founded by the Sicani in the eighth century B.C., is probably to be identified with the remains of a fortified city, north of Licata, located on the western side of Sicily.
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 D4 Kakyron?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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