Platea (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Classical Atlas Project Office, G. Reger
Creators: Classical Atlas Project Office, G. Reger
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Apr 23, 2021 10:09 AM
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History
An island in the Aegean Sea mentioned by Pliny. It is probably to be identified with the modern Khamilonisi.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/560720
35.8634532, 26.2322965
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Kamilonisi (modern)
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- Less than certain: Καμηλονήσι (Kamilonísi: Modern Greek)
- Platea (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 57 E6 Platea? Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Khamilonisi
Classical Atlas Project Office, G. Reger, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, and Tom Elliott, 'Platea (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/560720> [accessed: 23 September 2023]
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