Historical place profile
Nea Pleuron
Second site of the ancient Greek city of Pleuron, built after the destruction of the original location in the 3rd century BCE. This second site boasts significant excavated remains and is located on the southern slope of Mount Aracynthus near modern Kato Retsina.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540961
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540961
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.415222, 21.409383
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Second site of the ancient Greek city of Pleuron, built after the destruction of the original location in the 3rd century BCE. This second site boasts significant excavated remains and is located on the southern slope of Mount Aracynthus near modern Kato Retsina.
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 55 A4 Nea Pleuron
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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