Historical place profile
Oropos
Oropos was an ancient settlement and port located on the border between Boeotia and Attica; the bulk of its Hellenistic - Roman remains are thought to underlie the modern village of Skala Oropou. Oropos was source of ongoing disputes in antiquity. Colonists from Eretria founded Oropos.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:580044
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:580044
- Place type
- port, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 38.319981, 23.790204
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Oropos was an ancient settlement and port located on the border between Boeotia and Attica; the bulk of its Hellenistic - Roman remains are thought to underlie the modern village of Skala Oropou. Oropos was source of ongoing disputes in antiquity. Colonists from Eretria founded Oropos.
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 59 C1 Oropos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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