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Place Grotte di Castro by W.V. Harris — last modified Sep 24, 2016 10:43 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 42 B3 Grotte di Castro
Place Gryneion by C. Foss — last modified May 18, 2023 07:54 PM
An ancient coastal city of Aeolis where an oracle of Apollo was located. It was located near the modern Turkish village of Yenişakran (İzmir Province) and the small cape known as Termaşalık Burnu.
Place Hares/Haribus/Har/Phoar by D.J. Mattingly — last modified Dec 04, 2023 07:24 PM
An ancient place in north Africa for which a number of name variants are attested. Its ancient location is uncertain; it may perhaps be identifiable with modern Guellala in Tunisia.
Place Heraia by G. Reger — last modified Apr 10, 2024 10:39 AM
An ancient city of Arcadia, located on the north bank of the Alpheius river, east of its confluence with the Ladon. Archaeological evidence for its location has been identified near modern Hagios Ioannis.
Place Heraklion by J. Bennet — last modified Feb 09, 2024 07:08 AM
Heraklion was the harbor city of ancient Knossos, and was later re-founded by the Arab conquerors.
Place Hermonthis by T. Wilfong — last modified Jul 07, 2023 09:15 PM
Modern Armant, an important town of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom that was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty and continued to thrive through the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Coptic periods.
Place Hypsous (settlement) by G. Reger — last modified Mar 29, 2024 04:29 PM
An ancient settlement, ruined by Pausanias' day, thought to have been located in the vicinity of the modern village of Stemnitsa in Greece's Trikoloni municipality (Arcadia).
Place Iac(c)a by H.S. Sivan — last modified Jan 19, 2024 10:08 PM
Iac(c)a was a town of the Vascones in Hispania Tarraconensis.
Place Iamo/Iamna by P.O. Spann — last modified Oct 05, 2024 01:04 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 27 inset Iamo/Iamna
Place Iathrippa by D.F. Graf — last modified Jan 01, 2023 07:48 PM
Iathrippa was an oasis settlement along the Incense Road. From the Roman period until the advent of Islam the site was the seat of influential Iudaeo-Arabian tribes. Iathrippa would become an important center of Islam. Muhammad fled here from Mecca in 622 and the site was renamed Al-Madīna. It remained a key center until 656. It is the site of Muhammad's grave and a place of Muslim pilgrimage.
Place Interamna Nahars by W.V. Harris — last modified Jul 25, 2023 06:02 PM
An Umbrian center founded in the seventh century B.C. that became an important Roman municipality along the Via Flaminia.
Place Ios (settlement) by C. Foss — last modified Jun 07, 2018 07:01 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 61 A4 Ios
Place Kabul by M.U. Erdosy — last modified Apr 11, 2023 03:33 PM
Pre-modern settlement at and around the area of modern Kabul, Afghanistan has been known by various names in a variety of languages and periods. Excavations begun in the early twenty-first century have significantly extended scholarly understanding established in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Place Kallipolis/Anxa by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Aug 19, 2020 02:34 PM
Kallipolis/Anxa in legend was said to have been founded by Idomeneus of Crete, while Pliny the Elder credits Senonian Gauls as founders. It is most likely that the site was a Messapic settlement.
Place Kallithera by J. Fossey — last modified Apr 12, 2024 12:24 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 B2 Kallithera
Place Kantarodai by M.U. Erdosy — last modified Sep 24, 2024 12:09 PM
Kantarodai is the name of a small, modern neighborhood in Chunnakam town in northern Sri Lanka. Archaeological excavations there have produced both local and imported pottery as well as mainland Indian and Roman coins.
Place Kastro ano Diakopto by G. Reger — last modified Mar 27, 2024 02:04 PM
Abundant spolia, artifacts, and building foundations provide evidence for an ancient settlement in the area of modern Kastro ano Diakopto and the church of Ag. Athanasios on the hill above it to the west. It is probably to be identified with ancient Boura, an attested settlement of Achaia.
Place Klima by Catherine Bouras — last modified Nov 24, 2024 01:01 PM
Modern settlement and harbour on the North side of the island of Milos, with archaeological remains of the Hellenistic and Roman settlement.
Place Kotyora by T. Sinclair — last modified Apr 26, 2021 02:24 PM
An ancient settlement on the Black Sea coast just to the north of modern Ordu, Turkey. Archaeological remnants of port facilities were previously noted in the neighborhood of Kirazlimanı.
Place Kozynthion Akra by D.J. Mattingly — last modified Aug 03, 2022 04:09 PM
A small promontory on the modern Libyan coast of the Gulf of Sidra on and around which the Brega Seaport complex (Marsa Brega/Marsā al Burayqah) now stands.