Historical place profile
Thouria
Thouria is a settlement of the Peloponnese, with archaeological evidence ranging in date from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. The nature of the archaic and classical polity is debated in the sources. The ancient site is located in the vicinity of modern Aithaia/Hellenika, about 3 kilometers north of modern Thouria.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570733
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570733
- Place type
- acropolis, settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.110035, 22.050686
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Thouria is a settlement of the Peloponnese, with archaeological evidence ranging in date from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. The nature of the archaic and classical polity is debated in the sources. The ancient site is located in the vicinity of modern Aithaia/Hellenika, about 3 kilometers north of modern Thouria.
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 C3 Thouria
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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