Classical (550 BC-330 BC)
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- Miletus — by C. Foss — last modified May 05, 2024 10:43 AM
- A major ancient city in Ionia.
- Mylae — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Jun 07, 2018 06:54 PM
- An ancient Greek settlement on the north-east coast of Sicily, located at the base of a peninsula that juts into the Tyrrhenian Sea. A colony of Zancle, it was probably founded in the eighth or seventh century BC. In 260 BC, during the First Punic War, the Romans won their first major naval battle against the Carthaginians in the waters off Mylae.
- Myriand(r)os — by T. Sinclair — last modified Jun 29, 2022 10:24 AM
- Myriand(r)os was an ancient Phoenician port near modern İskenderun, Turkey.
- Neapolis (Kavalla) — by E.N. Borza — last modified Apr 18, 2023 12:15 PM
- An ancient port city on the coast of Thrace, Neapolis (modern Kavalla in the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace in Greece) was probably founded from Thasos in the seventh century CE. It served as the port for Philippi in Hellenistic and Roman times, and was refortified by Justinian in the sixth century CE.
- Neapolis/Lepcis Magna — by D.J. Mattingly — last modified Jan 15, 2023 03:58 PM
- Originally a Phoenician colony founded ca. 1100 B.C., Lepcis Magna became a prominent Roman city and birthplace of the emperor Septimius Severus.
- Oiniadai — by W.M. Murray — last modified Jun 07, 2018 03:40 PM
- A city at the former mouth of the Achelous river.
- Onchesmos — by W.M. Murray — last modified Jan 13, 2020 09:55 AM
- Onchesmos was a port in Epirus.
- Orikon — by J.J. Wilkes — last modified Jan 08, 2023 04:43 AM
- An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 49 B3 Orikon
- Oropos — by J.S. Traill — last modified Feb 28, 2024 08:16 PM
- Oropos was an ancient settlement and port located on the border between Boeotia and Attica, and was source of ongoing disputes in antiquity. Colonists from Eretria founded Oropos.
- Othoca — by S.L. Dyson — last modified Dec 18, 2023 08:29 PM
- The site of a Phoenician port on the Gulf of Oristano in western Sardinia.
- Pagai — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 13, 2024 04:54 PM
- A fortified port located on the Gulf of Corinth near Alepokhori.
- Pagliano Roman port — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified May 24, 2021 07:29 AM
- A riverine port near the confluence of the Tiber and Paglia rivers.
- Panormos (settlement, port) — by G. Reger — last modified Jun 06, 2023 10:01 AM
- An ancient settlement presumed to have been co-located with a harbor (limen) mentioned by Pausanias as lying 15 stadia east of the Rhion Pr. (modern Rio in Greece), on the north coast of the Peloponnese.
- Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus — by David Braund — last modified Mar 30, 2022 09:25 AM
- The main city and port of the Kimmerian Bosporus, founded by Miletus in the late seventh or early sixth centuries B.C. Modern Kerch.
- Parium/Col. Gemella Iulia *Hadriana — by C. Foss — last modified Jun 21, 2022 12:53 PM
- Founded as a Greek city in the Propontis region of Anatolia, perhaps ca. 709 BCE, Persians would come to control Parium in 546 BCE. The city allied itself with Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but was subsequently ruled again by the Persians again. Its long occupation included a Macedonian phase, followed by control exercise by the Seleucids, the Kingdom of Pergamon, the Romans, and the Byzantines.
- Patara/Arsinoe — by C. Foss — last modified Jul 19, 2019 10:44 PM
- Patara/Arsinoe was an ancient maritime center of southwest Lycia.
- Pelusium — by A. Bernand — last modified May 02, 2022 05:04 PM
- Pelusium was a fortified ancient city located at the mouth of the eastern-most branch of the Nile river. Its ruins, now land-locked and located approximately 30km southeast of Port Said, are known as Tell Farama.
- Phalasarna — by J. Bennet — last modified Sep 19, 2023 09:45 AM
- An ancient harbor town located on the northwest coast of Crete.
- Phaleron — by J.S. Traill — last modified Mar 09, 2022 10:34 AM
- Phalerum was a port of ancient Athens, located approximately 5 km southwest of the Acropolis of Athens, on the Saronic Gulf.
- Phaleron Limen — by J.S. Traill — last modified May 30, 2022 03:03 PM
- An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 59 B3 Phaleron Limen