Historical place profile
Thyraion
An ancient town of Arcadia that was said to have been founded by Thyraeus, a son of Lycaon. It is possibly to be localized in the area of the modern village of Palamari in Greece's Trikolonoi municipality (Arcadia).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570735
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570735
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 37.501432, 22.124682
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient town of Arcadia that was said to have been founded by Thyraeus, a son of Lycaon. It is possibly to be localized in the area of the modern village of Palamari in Greece's Trikolonoi municipality (Arcadia).
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 C2 Thyraion
Source and reuse
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Research path
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