Chaon (mountain)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 18, 2023 07:54 PM
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History
Mentioned by Pausanias, this mountain is securely identified with the modern Megavouni (Greece).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570171
37.601774607, 22.6339028694
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Μεγαβούνι (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- BAtlas Map Label Location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 930 meters.
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- Χάον (Chaon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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mountain, map label location
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 D2 Chaon M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Megavouni
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Chaon (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570171> [accessed: 21 May 2025]
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