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Kastellion

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Sep 02, 2025 09:47 AM — History

Hill in Khania, Crete, that was the center of the Minoan city of Cydonia and was later a Roman acropolis.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/553704982

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
35.5172997, 24.0194511

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kastellion (2000 BC - 1080 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Καστέλλι (Kastelli: Modern Greek)

Kastellion makes connections with:

Kastellion part of (physical/topographic) Kydonia (2000 BC - 1080 BC)

Kastellion receives connections from:

Agia Aikaterini square excavations located at Kastellion (unspecified date range)

Place type:
hill

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Zachary Rosalinsky, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Kastellion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/553704982> [accessed: 11 September 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/553704982 |title=Places: 553704982 (Kastellion) |author=Rosalinsky, Z. |accessdate=September 11, 2026 3:37 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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