Historical place profile
Pyrgoi/Pyrgos
An ancient settlement of Triphylia in the western Peloponnese, thought to have been located in the vicinity of the modern Greek village of Agios Elias in the municipality of Zacharo, some 36km south-southeast of the modern city of Pyrgos.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570641
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570641
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 37.411860, 21.691763
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement of Triphylia in the western Peloponnese, thought to have been located in the vicinity of the modern Greek village of Agios Elias in the municipality of Zacharo, some 36km south-southeast of the modern city of Pyrgos.
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 B3 Pyrgoi
Source and reuse
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Research path
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