Metropolis? (settlement)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 26, 2024 10:46 PM
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History
The modern village of Palaiomanina in the West Greek regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania may be identifiable with "Metropolis", a settlement known from ancient sources.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531000
38.5533582145, 21.2456978402
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: acropolis/kastro of Palaiomanina (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Metropolis (Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 30 BC)
- Metropolis? (settlement) member of Acarnanian League (330 BC - 30 BC)
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settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 D4 Metropolis?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Palaiomanina
W.M. Murray, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Metropolis? (settlement): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531000> [accessed: 29 March 2025]
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