Historical place profile
Tithorea/Neon
An ancient city on the southern edge of the Kephissos plain. Known in modern times as Velitsa, the Greek village overlying the ancient site changed its name to Tithorea in the 1920s.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:541152
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:541152
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.585500, 22.668600
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city on the southern edge of the Kephissos plain. Known in modern times as Velitsa, the Greek village overlying the ancient site changed its name to Tithorea in the 1920s.
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 55 D3 Tithorea/Neon
Source and reuse
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Research path
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