Poteidaia/Kassandreia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.N. Borza Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 10, 2021 08:39 PM
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History
Poteidaia/Kassandreia was a Greek colony founded ca. 600 BC by Corinthians on the peninsula of Pallene in western Chalcidice. The site received a Roman colony in 43 B.C. and in 30 B.C. Augustus settled veterans there, renaming it as Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491701
40.193696, 23.327812
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 24187 (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Kassandreia (330 BC - AD 300)
- Ποτείδαια (Poteidaia: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 330 BC)
- Poteidaia/Kassandreia part of (physical/topographic) Pallene/Phlegra (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 50 D4 Poteidaia/Kassandreia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nea Potidaia
E.N. Borza, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Poteidaia/Kassandreia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491701> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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