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Place Hippolaou Akra — by David Braund — last modified Mar 17, 2023 01:29 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 23 F2 Hippolaou Akra
Place Hydra Pr. — by C. Foss — last modified Feb 08, 2024 08:51 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 56 D4 Hydra Pr.
Place Hyllis Pr. — by M. Šašel Kos — last modified Sep 17, 2023 04:28 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 20 C6 Hyllis Pr.
Place Kleides Pr. — by D. Rupp — last modified Jun 27, 2023 05:11 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 72 F1 Kleides Pr.
Place Koroneia (promontory) — by J.S. Traill — last modified Mar 26, 2024 04:43 PM
A peninsula on the east coast of Attica.
Place Krasos Pr. — by C. Foss — last modified Sep 20, 2024 11:27 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 65 A4 Krasos Pr.
Place Kriou Metopon Pr. — by David Braund — last modified Mar 17, 2023 11:19 AM
Kriou Metopon Pr. ("The Ram's Forehead) is the modern Cape Sarych, the southernmost point of Ukraine.
Place Lebedos/Ptolemais — by C. Foss — last modified May 18, 2023 07:52 PM
An ancient city of Ionia, located on and behind the modern Kisik peninsula in the Turkish municipality of Mersin Alanı Mahallesi (Izmir Province).
Place Lekton/Lectum — by C. Foss — last modified Mar 08, 2023 08:49 AM
The Lekton promontory (modern Cape Baba or Baba Burnu) is the the westernmost point of Asia Minor.
Place Leucopetra (cape) — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Jan 11, 2021 03:22 PM
Leucopetra Pr. (Punta di Pellaro) in Calabria is the extreme southwestern point of mainland Italy.
Place Leukimma Pr. — by W.M. Murray — last modified Jun 28, 2023 09:35 AM
Leukimma Pr. (Akra Lefkimmis)
Place Luaron? Akron — by Jr. — last modified Sep 25, 2020 11:41 AM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 26 B1 Luaron? Akron
Place 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.
Place Pachynum (promontory) — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Jun 29, 2022 05:18 PM
A promontory of extreme southeastern Sicily.
Place Peiraion — by G. Reger — last modified Jul 26, 2023 10:09 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 D1 Peiraion
Place Pelorus/Regium (promontory) — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Nov 10, 2024 02:14 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 H2 Pelorus/Regium Pr.
Place Plemmyrium (promontory) — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified May 09, 2022 10:45 AM
Modern scholars associate Plemmyrium with the modern Penisola della Maddalena located south of Syracuse on the island of Sicily, but they differ as to which cape on the peninsula is meant by ancient sources.
Place Rhion Pr. — by G. Reger — last modified Feb 20, 2020 11:09 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 B1 Rhion Pr.
Place Sacrum Pr. — by Jr. — last modified Nov 30, 2021 10:15 PM
A promontory described by the geographer Strabo as the most westerly point of the inhabited world. The modern Cape St. Vincent (Portugal).
Place Sallentinum/Iapygia — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Mar 20, 2023 03:36 PM
Cape Leuca, known as Sallentinum and Iapygia in ancient sources, is a headland that forms the extreme southeastern point of Italy and separates the Gulf of Tarentum from the Adriatic Sea.