Historical place profile
Nauplia
Although the Classical/Hellenistic city was deserted in Pausanias' day, archaeology reveals that the area of modern Nafplio and its natural harbor on the Argolic Gulf was repeatedly a site of habitation and human activity from the Neolithic period to the modern day. Remains of a Hellenistic acropolis wall have been identified under the later Byzantine (with subsequent accretions and modifications) fort.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570501
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570501
- Place type
- harbor, settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.568123, 22.808706
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Although the Classical/Hellenistic city was deserted in Pausanias' day, archaeology reveals that the area of modern Nafplio and its natural harbor on the Argolic Gulf was repeatedly a site of habitation and human activity from the Neolithic period to the modern day. Remains of a Hellenistic acropolis wall have been identified under the later Byzantine (with subsequent accretions and modifications) fort.
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 D2 Nauplia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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