Historical place profile
Rhodopha
Rhodopha was an ancient settlement listed in an itinerary in Megasthenes' Indika as transmitted by the Elder Pliny. As a tentative identification, BAtlas silently followed Rawlinson, who writes "Said to be Dabhai near Anupshahr" (p. 42 n. 3).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:60019
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:60019
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 28.127144, 78.310903
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Rhodopha was an ancient settlement listed in an itinerary in Megasthenes' Indika as transmitted by the Elder Pliny. As a tentative identification, BAtlas silently followed Rawlinson, who writes "Said to be Dabhai near Anupshahr" (p. 42 n. 3).
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 6 D4 Rhodopha
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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