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Abia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Mar 27, 2024 04:01 PM — History
An ancient coastal city of Messenia that modern scholars locate in an area known in modern times as Palaiochora, i.e., in the modern village that now takes its name from the ancient one. Ruins of a medieval (Venetian?) castle are generally assumed to have been built on the ancient site.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570027

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    • Abia (330 BC - AD 300)
    • Αβία (Abia: Modern Greek, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
    • Avias (Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
    • Palaiochora (Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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castle, settlement, settlement-modern

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 C4 Abia

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Avias


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G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Abia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570027> [accessed: 20 April 2024] 

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