Historical place profile
Teuthrone
An unexcavated ancient port settlement on the Gulf of Lakonia, located near modern Kotronas. There is some evidence of Bronze Age habitation on the Skopa peninsula and reports of a significant Classical-to-Roman complex on the mainland in the vicinity.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570714
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570714
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.621145, 22.489063
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An unexcavated ancient port settlement on the Gulf of Lakonia, located near modern Kotronas. There is some evidence of Bronze Age habitation on the Skopa peninsula and reports of a significant Classical-to-Roman complex on the mainland in the vicinity.
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 C4 Teuthrone
Source and reuse
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Research path
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