Historical place profile
Polemonion/Side
A harbor city on the Black Sea, Polemonion/Side was founded in the region of Sidene (Pontus) by either Polemon I or Polemon II of Pontus. Following the Roman annexation of the Pontic kingdom in the 60s CE, the city's importance declined substantially.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:857285
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:857285
- Place type
- port, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 41.030881, 37.500221
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A harbor city on the Black Sea, Polemonion/Side was founded in the region of Sidene (Pontus) by either Polemon I or Polemon II of Pontus. Following the Roman annexation of the Pontic kingdom in the 60s CE, the city's importance declined substantially.
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 87 C3 Polemonion/Side
Source and reuse
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Research path
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