Historical place profile
Tenea
Tenea was an ancient city of the Corinthia famous for its sanctuary of Apollo. Scholars have long believed it is to be located in the area of modern Chiliomodi in Greece. Recent scientific excavations have identified the general extent of a large, multi-period cemetery zone to the east and south of the modern town, as well as an extensive bath complex of Roman date.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570711
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570711
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 37.807939, 22.867888
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Tenea was an ancient city of the Corinthia famous for its sanctuary of Apollo. Scholars have long believed it is to be located in the area of modern Chiliomodi in Greece. Recent scientific excavations have identified the general extent of a large, multi-period cemetery zone to the east and south of the modern town, as well as an extensive bath complex of Roman date.
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 D2 Tenea
Source and reuse
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Research path
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