Adramyttium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Ethan Gruber, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Wikidata contributors, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sebastian Heath, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Andy Meadows
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History
An ancient city of Aeolis, located on the modern Karataş peninsula at Ören in Turkey's Balıkesir province.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403
39.4986400291, 26.9360975594
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Adramytteion (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ἀδραμύττιον (Adramyttion: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Adramyttium (750 BC - AD 640)
- Ἀτραμύττιον (Atramyttion: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
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settlement, archaeological site
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 D2 Adramyttium
The Barrington Atlas provides the following additional information: Karataş (Ören)
Current Archaeology in Turkey glosses the site with the modern appellation "Balıkesir"
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Ethan Gruber, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Wikidata contributors, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sebastian Heath, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and Andy Meadows, 'Adramyttium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550403> [accessed: 18 February 2026]
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