Historical place profile
Parium/Col. Gemella Iulia *Hadriana
Founded as a Greek city in the Propontis region of Anatolia, perhaps ca. 709 BCE, Persians would come to control Parium in 546 BCE. The city allied itself with Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but was subsequently ruled again by the Persians again. Its long occupation included a Macedonian phase, followed by control exercise by the Seleucids, the Kingdom of Pergamon, the Romans, and the Byzantines.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:511354
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:511354
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.423698, 27.070262
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Founded as a Greek city in the Propontis region of Anatolia, perhaps ca. 709 BCE, Persians would come to control Parium in 546 BCE. The city allied itself with Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but was subsequently ruled again by the Persians again. Its long occupation included a Macedonian phase, followed by control exercise by the Seleucids, the Kingdom of Pergamon, the Romans, and the Byzantines.
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 52 A4 Parium/Col. Gemella Iulia *Hadriana
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Research path
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