Historical place profile
Orraon/Horreum
Orraon was a city of the Molossians, founded probably in the early fourth century BCE and planned on a grid system. It may have been destroyed by the Romans after Pydna in 168 BCE, and its inhabitants were removed to Nikopolis in 31 BCE. The site is remarkable for the preservation of its stone-built domestic architecture.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:531025
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:531025
- Place type
- acropolis, settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.271224, 20.925390
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Orraon was a city of the Molossians, founded probably in the early fourth century BCE and planned on a grid system. It may have been destroyed by the Romans after Pydna in 168 BCE, and its inhabitants were removed to Nikopolis in 31 BCE. The site is remarkable for the preservation of its stone-built domestic architecture.
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 54 C3 Orraon/Horreum
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Research path
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