Bisanthe/Rhaidestos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss
Creators: C. Foss
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 21, 2025 12:26 PM
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History
Bisanthe/Rhaidestos was a city of Thrace located on the Propontis.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511187
40.978415, 27.508023
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 24227 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Bisanthe (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Βισάνθη (Bisanthe: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Rhaidestos (550 BC - AD 640)
- Tekfurṭaġı (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- None
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None
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 52 B3 Bisanthe/Rhaidestos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tekirdağ
C. Foss, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Bisanthe/Rhaidestos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511187> [accessed: 09 December 2025]
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