Historical place profile
Tithronion
An ancient city of Phocis in Greek, which according to Pausanias was burned by Xerxes. Modern consensus places its acropolis at an unexcavated paliokastro north of modern Ano Kalivia, just inside the southern boundary of the Kapenitsa-Vertzianou-Amfikleia protected area.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:541153
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:541153
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.675333, 22.581073
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city of Phocis in Greek, which according to Pausanias was burned by Xerxes. Modern consensus places its acropolis at an unexcavated paliokastro north of modern Ano Kalivia, just inside the southern boundary of the Kapenitsa-Vertzianou-Amfikleia protected area.
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 Tithronion
Source and reuse
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