Daskylitis Limne
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 31, 2020 03:23 PM
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History
Also called "Aphnitis Limne" in antiquity, according to Strabo. Modern Lake Kuş/Lake Manyas in Turkey.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511224
40.183333, 27.966667
- Representative Locations:
- location of Lake Kuş (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ἀφνίτις Λίμνη (Aphnitis Limne: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Δασκυλίτις Λίμνη (Daskylitis Limne: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- Kuş Gölü (Turkish, modern)
- Lake Kuş (English, modern)
- Manyas Gölü (Turkish, modern)
- Daskyleion abuts Daskylitis Limne (unspecified date range)
lake
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 52 B4 Daskylitis/Aphnitis L.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Manyas Gölü
C. Foss, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Daskylitis Limne: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511224> [accessed: 27 March 2025]
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