Apollonia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors:
Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Oct 02, 2024 06:08 PM
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History
An ancient road station and settlement along the Via Egnatia in Mygdonia, between Amphipolis and Thessaoniki. Located near the modern municipality of Nea Apollonia in the Thessaloniki province of Greece. Possibly at a location now called Polina (Papazoglou) or a site between Nea Apollonia and Kokkalou excavated by Hatzopoulos in the early 1990s.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491526
40.623703, 23.469685
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: Approximate centerpoint of site identified by Hatzopoulos as Apollonia (Mygdonia) (550 BC - AD 850) accuracy: +/- 1000 meters.
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- Apollonia (550 BC - AD 640)
- Apollonia part of (regional) Mygdonia (unspecified date range)
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settlement, station (road or coastal)
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 50 D3 Apollonia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S shore Lake Volve, near Polina
E.N. Borza, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Apollonia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491526> [accessed: 22 April 2025]
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