Historical place profile
Topeiros (Paradeisos)
There is evidence for human habitation from the Neolithic onward In and around Paradeisos, a modern Greek village in the Nestos municipality of Kavala, Macedonia and Thrace. Long-standing scholarly consensus holds that these remains are to be identified with the well-attested ancient settlement of Topeiros, although BAtlDir registers slight hesitation (question mark).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:501645
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:501645
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.079556, 24.773105
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
There is evidence for human habitation from the Neolithic onward In and around Paradeisos, a modern Greek village in the Nestos municipality of Kavala, Macedonia and Thrace. Long-standing scholarly consensus holds that these remains are to be identified with the well-attested ancient settlement of Topeiros, although BAtlDir registers slight hesitation (question mark).
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 51 D2 Topeiros
Source and reuse
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Research path
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