Historical place profile
Thapsos
An ancient settlement located on Sicily's Magnisi peninsula (in the modern administrative municipality of Priolo Gargallo, Siracusa province). The site was inhabited from the Bronze Age through at least the Greek archaic period, with subsequent, periodic military use and construction from the Classical through the modern period.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462511
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462511
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.153074, 15.233776
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement located on Sicily's Magnisi peninsula (in the modern administrative municipality of Priolo Gargallo, Siracusa province). The site was inhabited from the Bronze Age through at least the Greek archaic period, with subsequent, periodic military use and construction from the Classical through the modern period.
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 47 G4 Thapsos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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