Klazomenai (later)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Peter Cobb, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Rob Chavez, Ryan Horne
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Last modified
Aug 29, 2023 03:50 PM
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History
A town in Lydia that, according to Pausanias, moved from an initial, mainland site thought by scholars to have been southwest of modern Urla Iskelesi to an island in the Bay of Smyrna (modern Klazümen). This place resource represents the later city; see also "Klazomenai (earlier)."
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550651
38.3730477505, 26.7866198434
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Karantina Island (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Khyton (Ancient, in Latin characters Greek, 540 BC - 330 BC)
- Klazomenai (550 BC - AD 640)
- Klazomenai (later) part of (regional) Ionia (region) (unspecified date range)
- Klazomenai (later) part of (administrative) Ionian League (unspecified date range)
- Klazomenai (earlier) relocated to Klazomenai (later) (unspecified date range)
island, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 D5 Klazomenai
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Klazümen
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, Peter Cobb, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Rob Chavez, and Ryan Horne, 'Klazomenai (later): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550651> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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