Historical place profile

Pan(h)ormus

First founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Ziz, Pan(h)ormus (modern Palermo) was an important ancient city of the Greek, Roman, and Arabic civilizations.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:462410
Catalogue ID
pleiades:462410
Place type
settlement, settlement-modern
Coordinates
38.111227, 13.352443
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

First founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Ziz, Pan(h)ormus (modern Palermo) was an important ancient city of the Greek, Roman, and Arabic civilizations.

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 C2 Pan(h)ormus

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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