Historical place profile
Xirokastrini
A ruined Hellenistic wall-and-tower site (with subsequent additions) on the Xirokastrini hill between modern Kalloni and Parakoila on the island of Lesbos is possibly to be identified with the attested ancient settlement of Issa.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550599
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550599
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.207108, 26.131466
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A ruined Hellenistic wall-and-tower site (with subsequent additions) on the Xirokastrini hill between modern Kalloni and Parakoila on the island of Lesbos is possibly to be identified with the attested ancient settlement of Issa.
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 56 C3 Issa?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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