Historical place profile
Phoinikous Limen
An anchorage, harbor, and/or coastal station on the east-southeast coast of Sicily that is mentioned in ancient sources. It may have been located in the area where the ruins of the 18th century Tonnara di Vendicari now stand or somewhere else in the bay behind and south of it to the island of Vendicari.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462426
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462426
- Place type
- anchorage, bay, island, port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.797342, 15.102125
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An anchorage, harbor, and/or coastal station on the east-southeast coast of Sicily that is mentioned in ancient sources. It may have been located in the area where the ruins of the 18th century Tonnara di Vendicari now stand or somewhere else in the bay behind and south of it to the island of Vendicari.
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 G5 Phoinikous Limen?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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