You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Palaiophiva

Palaiophiva

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified May 07, 2026 11:05 PM — History

A Classical and Hellenistic settlement featuring a unique, square fortification wall that was located just south of the Kephissos river

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/437726118

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.6237705, 22.680617

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: Approximate Imagery Location: northwest corner of fortification wall (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Imagery Location: southeast corner of fortification wall (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Παλαιὰ Φήβα (Palaia Phiva: Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Palaiaphiva (Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Palaiophiva (Modern Greek, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Paliophiva (Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 1999)

Palaiophiva makes connections with:

None

Palaiophiva receives connections from:

Less than certain: Pedieis same as Palaiophiva (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement (fortified)

References:

See Further:

Sporn 2026 pages 121, 126-127, 130, 136, 168-172, and 183

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Tom Elliott, 'Palaiophiva: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/437726118> [accessed: 13 June 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/437726118 |title=Places: 437726118 (Palaiophiva) |author=Elliott, T. |accessdate=June 13, 2026 5:50 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Palaiophiva