Hyllis/Diomedis (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott
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Jul 30, 2026 09:37 AM
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History
Modern Cape Ploča / Punta Planka on Croatia's Adriatic coast. Pleiades follows Pliny, the only extant source providing names for this feature, who treats "Hyllis" and "Diomedis" as two names for the same landform. BAtlas and, later, Shipley and Šešelj, treated "Diomedis" as the small, narrow promontory on which an ancient temple to Diomedes stood and "Hyllis" as the larger, blunt peninsula of which it was a part due to the presence of the Hylloi, attested in the Periplus of Pseudo-Skylax, who seem to have inhabited the area.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/197309
43.4932638, 15.9689188
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Punta Planka (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Planka Point (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Punta Planca (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Punta Planka (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Rt Ploča (Croatian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- paeninsula Hyllis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- promunturium Diomedis (promunturium Diomedis: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Diomedis Pr. (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Hyllis Pr. (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- None
- Temple of Diomedes (Ploča) located on Hyllis/Diomedis (promontory) (330 BC - 30 BC)
cape, promontory, promuntory
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 20 C6 Hyllis Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Punta Planka CRO
M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Hyllis/Diomedis (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/197309> [accessed: 13 October 2026]
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