Kokkinos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 22, 2023 12:03 PM
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History
At Kokkinos (or Kótsinas) on Lemnos there is a mound-like promontory that projects into the Bay of Pourniá. Here was a once important Byzantine/Venetian castle that occupied the site of an earlier, Classical settlement.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550657
39.9387635, 25.282718
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 13229 (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- DARMC location 13255 (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Kokkinos part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 A2 Kokkinos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kokkinos, on Lemnos GRE
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Kokkinos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550657> [accessed: 18 December 2024]
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