Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 3 new and 251 updated place resources, reflecting the work of nine people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of them. Authored by Anika Campbell and building on work done by the MANTO Greek myth project, we now have a place resource for Hyria in Cilicia. Hyria was an ancient city (now unlocated) mentioned by Apollodorus, who places it near Celenderis (modern Aydıncık in Turkey): https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/458576716

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Export Updates 2026-02-12:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

16 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

e4997ec1 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
9afb77f4 - updated gis package
ed177555 - updated data quality
f5bf9e75 - updated bibliography
47a973fc - updated indexes
2ae5760f - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: https://github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geojson:

d6473c44 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wikidata/:

278406e7 - updated pleiades wikidata

Export Updates 2026-02-10:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

163 updated places. 1 retraction (duplicate).

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

29fdad3f - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
544a2477 - updated gis package
736e3c90 - updated data quality
0b73f44d - updated bibliography
2d4da61e - updated indexes
1ba81cc1 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: https://github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geojson:

1b511d27 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wikidata/:

a8e9394b - updated pleiades wikidata