Naulochos/Templum Iovis?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.G. Poulter Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Sep 24, 2025 07:25 PM
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History
A seaside settlement of ancient Thrace that was a colony of Mesembria. Some Romans seem to have referred to the site also as Templum Iovis.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/216893
42.816667, 27.883333
- Representative Locations:
- location of Naulochos/Templum Iovis? (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ναύλοχος (Naulochos: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Templo Iovis (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Less than certain: Templum Iovis (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Tetranaulochus (Latin, unspecified date range)
- Naulochos/Templum Iovis? connection Pontus Euxinus (unspecified date range)
- Naulochos/Templum Iovis? connection Unnamed road sequence: Deultum to Argamum (unspecified date range)
- Larisa located near Naulochos/Templum Iovis? (30 BC - AD 300)
settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 22 E6 Naulochos/Templum Iovis?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Obzor BUL.
A.G. Poulter, R. Talbert, Brian Turner, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Naulochos/Templum Iovis?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/216893> [accessed: 12 December 2025]
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