Pollina
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 06, 2023 08:25 PM
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History
Modern town in Sicily, near Cefalù, that has been associated with the ancient settlement of Apollonia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/155765601
37.992894, 14.1457994
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Pollina (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pollina (Italian, modern)
- Pollina connection Apollonia (unspecified date range)
- Pollina connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement-modern
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The identification of Pollina with Apollonia stated in Manni 1981 is not supported by the Barrington Atlas or the BTCGI which both suggest Monte San Fratello as a more plausible location.
Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Pollina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/155765601> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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