Akriai
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 02, 2022 09:37 AM
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History
Akriai or Acriae was a settlement of ancient Laconia, located to the south of the modern Greek village of Kokkinia (municipality of Evrotas). According to Strabo, the Eurotas river flows into the sea between Akriai and Gythium.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570058
36.791643, 22.787006
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of visible excavation (unspecified date range)
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building, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 D4 Akriai
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kokkinia
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Akriai: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570058> [accessed: 25 September 2023]
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