Meteora
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 27, 2023 10:09 AM
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History
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UWHS
Metéora comprises a complex of six Eastern Orthodox monasteries built on natural sandstone pillars of the Thessalian plain. The site was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/548453076
39.7137318328, 21.6333467399
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Meteora (AD 640 - Present) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of The Holy Trinity Monastery (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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cultural landscape, monastery, architectural complex, church, monastery (deprecated)
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Meteora: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/548453076> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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