Historical place profile

Panormos (settlement, port)

An ancient settlement presumed to have been co-located with a harbor (limen) mentioned by Pausanias as lying 15 stadia east of the Rhion Pr. (modern Rio in Greece), on the north coast of the Peloponnese.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:570555
Catalogue ID
pleiades:570555
Place type
port, settlement
Coordinates
38.316670, 21.816670
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

An ancient settlement presumed to have been co-located with a harbor (limen) mentioned by Pausanias as lying 15 stadia east of the Rhion Pr. (modern Rio in Greece), on the north coast of the Peloponnese.

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 B1 Panormos

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Research path

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