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Mende — by E.N. Borza — last modified Jun 07, 2018 05:40 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 51 A5 Mende

Mendes — by A. Bernand — last modified Jun 08, 2018 06:49 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 74 F3 Mendes

Mendolito — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Dec 28, 2016 09:49 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 F3 Mendolito

Menekine — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Aug 10, 2020 10:15 AM

An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today

Menouthis — by A. Bernand — last modified Jun 22, 2020 02:41 PM

Ancient Menouthis was sacred to both Isis and Serapis. Its ruins are now submerged.

Mesagne — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Apr 13, 2019 04:41 PM

A center of the Messapii in Apulia.

Messa — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 24, 2024 10:43 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 C4 Messa

Mesua — by S. Loseby — last modified Nov 11, 2023 06:11 PM

A Pre-Roman settlement located north of the Étang de Thau.

Metaon? — by C. Foss — last modified Oct 20, 2012 04:40 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 56 C4 Metaon?

Metapontum — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Jan 24, 2021 01:38 PM

An important city of Magna Graecia, Metapontum was located on the Gulf of Tarentum. The Achaeans were responsible for its foundation, perhaps as early as the eighth century B.C.

Metaurum — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Jun 07, 2018 08:22 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 46 C5 Metaurum

Methana/Arsinoe — by G. Reger — last modified Feb 15, 2024 05:36 PM

Methana/Arsinoe refers to a peninsula and settlement located on the north coast of the Argolid. In geological terms, the peninsula is formed by relatively recent volcanic activity, with the last-known eruptive activity in the third century BCE. Human activity on the peninsula spans many periods. The chief polity was located in the southwest of the peninsula where the modern village of Megalochori is found today.

Methone (Magnesian) — by J. Fossey — last modified Sep 16, 2023 11:59 PM

An ancient settlement located on the western side of the Magnesian peninsula on a hill named Nevestiki near modern Lekhonia (Volos municipality, Greece).

Methone (Pieria) — by E.N. Borza — last modified Sep 29, 2023 10:21 AM

An ancient settlement in Macedonian Pieria on a hilltop named Koryphi, near modern Nea Agathoupolis in the Pydna-Kalindros municipality in Pieria, Greece. The site was occupied from the Late Neolithic period (ca. 4000 BCE) through 354 BCE, when it was destroyed by the armies of Philip II. It was succeeded by a new settlement approximately 1km to the northwest; known as Macedonian Methone, this later settlement was occupied in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Methydrion — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 08, 2024 08:21 PM

An ancient city in northern Arcadia, located near the modern Greek town that now bears its name (formerly Nemnitsa).

Methymna — by C. Foss — last modified Dec 20, 2021 04:36 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 56 C3 Methymna

Metropolis — by J. Fossey — last modified May 09, 2022 09:15 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 B2 Metropolis

Metropolis? (settlement) — by W.M. Murray — last modified Apr 26, 2024 10:46 PM

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.

Meydancıkkale/Kiršu — by S. Mitchell — last modified Apr 13, 2024 06:58 PM

An ancient fortified complex located on a natural outcropping of the Taurus mountains near the modern village of Tırnak in the Gülnar district of Turkey's Mersin Province. Identified as KRS (Kirsi/Kirshu) in neo-Babylonian chronicles, the site continued to be occupied and used into the Hellenistic period when it was destroyed and abandoned around 235 BCE. There is some evidence for reuse of the site in the Byzantine period.

Midea — by G. Reger — last modified Sep 25, 2024 10:05 AM

An ancient site in the Argolid in Greece, it shares a name with the neighboring modern town.