Historical place profile
Selinous/Traianopolis
Selinous/Traianopolis was a city of Cilicia Aspera and counted among the chief coastal cities of Cilicia. It is perhaps best known as the place where Trajan died in A.D. 117 en route to Rome from his campaigns in the East.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:648772
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:648772
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.258509, 32.282734
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Selinous/Traianopolis was a city of Cilicia Aspera and counted among the chief coastal cities of Cilicia. It is perhaps best known as the place where Trajan died in A.D. 117 en route to Rome from his campaigns in the East.
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 66 A4 Selinous/Traianopolis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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