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Laranda — by S. Mitchell — last modified Oct 23, 2020 03:41 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 66 C2 Laranda

Lares — by R.B. Hitchner — last modified Jul 19, 2023 09:17 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 32 C4 Lares

Larga — by G.D. Woolf — last modified Oct 20, 2012 06:40 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 18 E2 Larga

Larina — by E. Bertrand — last modified Apr 12, 2014 08:43 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 17 E2 Larina

Larinum — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Aug 25, 2023 05:20 PM

A settlement of Apulia that originated with the Samnites and Frentani and later came under Roman influence. During the Second Punic War, the Romans defeated Hannibal at Larinum. The settlement eventually gained Roman municipal status.

Larisa — by A.G. Poulter — last modified May 15, 2019 07:43 PM

An ancient settlement, described by Strabo as lying "on the left of the Pontus, between Naulochus and Odessos, near Mount Haimos". Its modern location is uncertain, although it may correspond to a fortified settlement on the St. Athanasius Cape near modern Byala in Bulgaria.

Larisa — by J. Bennet — last modified Apr 04, 2021 11:21 AM

A city of southeastern Crete, mentioned by Strabo. It may be associated with the "Kastellos" at modern Kalamafka.

Larisa — by C. Foss — last modified Apr 03, 2021 11:05 AM

An ancient settlement located in mountainous terrain to the north of Tralleis.

Larisa — by C. Foss — last modified Apr 03, 2021 10:45 AM

An ancient settlement known to Strabo as a village (formerly a city) in the territory of Ephesus, but closer to Mt. Tmolus than to Ephesus itself. Modern scholars differ as to the precise location of Larisa, but agree in placing it between modern Tire and modern Bayındır in Turkey.

Larisa Kremaste/Pelasgia — by J. Fossey — last modified Oct 08, 2024 05:10 PM

An ancient settlement of Achaea Phthiotis, located in the area of the modern town of Pelasgia in Greece.

Larisa/Ptolemais? — by C. Foss — last modified Apr 01, 2021 02:12 PM

An ancient city of the Troad, located at modern Limantepe in Turkey.

Larissa — by T.B. Mitford — last modified Apr 03, 2021 11:15 AM

An ancient place in Cappadocia, lying on a Peutinger map route between "Arasaxa" and "Incilissa" (the latter possibly a false toponym resulting from scribal error). Modern attempts to identify a precise location are inconclusive.

Larissa — by N. Purcell — last modified Apr 03, 2021 11:08 AM

A putative ancient settlement somewhere in central Italy.

Larissa — by J. Fossey — last modified Apr 10, 2024 04:43 PM

The ancient capital of the Thessalian Pelasgiotis, modern Larisa in Greece.

Larissa — by J. Fossey — last modified Apr 06, 2021 07:19 PM

An unlocated ancient settlement of Thessaly, listed in the Map-by-Map Directory for Barrington Atlas Map 55 as "located somewhere on Mount Ossa."

Larissa/Sizara — by J.P. Brown — last modified Apr 03, 2021 10:46 AM

An ancient settlement located on the Orontes river to the southeast of Apamea. Scholars identify it with modern Shaizar in Syria.

Larmanaza — by P.-L. Gatier — last modified Oct 20, 2012 05:19 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 67 C4 Larmanaza

Larsa — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Jun 30, 2023 07:46 PM

Larsa (modern Tell as-Senkereh), a city located ca. 21 km east of Uruk, was an important southern Mesopotamian cult center of the sun-god (Utu/Šamaš). Its principal religious structure was called Ebabbar, just like the Šamaš temple in the northern Babylonian city Sippar. The Sumerian ceremonial names of some of Larsa’s other religious building are mentioned in two first-millennium-BC lists of ziggurats and some royal inscriptions, especially from the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2025–1763 BC) — when the city of Larsa temporarily became a dominant political power (ca. 1924–1763 BC) — and the Neo-Babylonian Period. The most important of these, at least in the sixth century BC, was the temple tower Edurana, which sometimes went by the name Eduranki. At the beginning of the second millennium BC (ca. 1924 BC), under a man called Gungunum (r. 1932–1906 BC), Larsa broke free of Isin’s dominance over it and established its own political dynasty. Although it grew more powerful than its former overlord, Larsa never accumulated a significant amount of territory. At its peak, under the authority of Rīm-Sîn I (r. 1822–1763 BC), it controlled only ten to fifteen other city-states. This city’s political dominance, as well as its dynastic line, was brought to an end by Hammu-rāpi of Babylon (r. 1792–1750 BC). After 1763 BC, Larsa was never again a major political player in Babylonia.

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

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 56 C3 Larsos

Larymna (Boeotia) — by J. Fossey — last modified Jul 01, 2024 03:26 PM

Located on the Gulf of Euboea, Larymna was a town of eastern Locris.

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