Prasias (lake)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.N. Borza Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 04, 2025 01:07 PM
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History
An ancient lake in the lower Strymon valley, now erased by modern flood control and land reclamation projects. Its precise borders and extent in antiquity are uncertain.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501579
40.9540781651, 23.6631258326
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: BAtlas Polygon Location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 930 meters.
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- Prasias L. (unspecified date range)
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lake
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 51 B3 Prasias L.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: lower R. Strymon valley
E.N. Borza, G. Reger, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Prasias (lake): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501579> [accessed: 19 May 2025]
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