Atrax
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 17, 2023 11:52 PM
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History
An ancient Greek polis in Pelasgiotis in Thessaly. The site is located in modern Greece, immediately south of the Peneios river and 2.5 km west of a small village named Κάστρο (Kastro), which is within the municipality of Larissa.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540682
39.5716, 22.1921
- Representative Locations:
- ToposText Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ἄτραξ (Atrax: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 640)
- Atrax part of (regional) Pelasgiotis (unspecified date range)
- Atrax part of (regional) Thessalia (unspecified date range)
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settlement, acropolis
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 C1 Atrax
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Aliphaka/Koutsokhero
J. Fossey, J. Morin, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, and Tom Elliott, 'Atrax: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540682> [accessed: 03 December 2024]
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