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Oropos — by J.S. Traill — last modified Oct 16, 2024 08:24 PM

Oropos was an ancient settlement and port located on the border between Boeotia and Attica; the bulk of its Hellenistic - Roman remains are thought to underlie the modern village of Skala Oropou. Oropos 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 — by J.J. Wilkes — last modified Apr 15, 2024 06:44 PM

An ancient coastal station and port (limen) mentioned by Ptolemy, this Panormos is tentatively identified by modern scholars as having been located on the modern Albanian Bay of Palermo

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 Jan 13, 2025 09:26 PM

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 May 24, 2024 03:02 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.

Pelodes Limen — by W.M. Murray — last modified Dec 26, 2022 12:18 PM

A lake near Buthrotum that served as a port.

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.

Petras Megas — by D.J. Mattingly — last modified Aug 09, 2013 11:20 AM

Petras Megas (known as Bardia or Bórdi Slemán) is a port settlement located in eastern Libya.

Peyriac-de-Mer — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Feb 03, 2020 08:37 AM

A small pre-Roman trading post on the edge of the Bages-Sigean lagoon.

Phalasarna — by J. Bennet — last modified Sep 27, 2024 03:52 PM

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

Phoinikon — by D.J. Mattingly — last modified Feb 22, 2013 01:35 PM

An ancient place.

Phoinikous Limen — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified May 25, 2023 04:34 PM

An anchorage, harbor, and/or coastal station on the east-southeast coast of Sicily that is mentioned in ancient sources. It may have been located in the area where the ruins of the 18th century Tonnara di Vendicari now stand or somewhere else in the bay behind and south of it to the island of Vendicari.

Phoinix — by J. Bennet — last modified Feb 07, 2024 11:19 PM

Phoinix was an ancient coastal city of western Crete that served as the port of inland Anopolis and also of later Aradena.

Podouke/Arikamedu — by M.U. Erdosy — last modified Oct 24, 2023 11:49 AM

Podouke/Arikamedu is an archaeological site located in Kakkayanthope, Ariyankuppam Commune, Puducherry, India.

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