Melos (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors:
Georgios Tsolakis, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 05, 2023 02:46 PM
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History
Melos is a volcanic island in the Cyclades and in prehistoric times served as an important source of obsidian in the Aegean Sea. Substantial remains of Bronze Age and Greco-Roman civilizations have been excavated on the island.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570475
36.683333, 24.416667
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Melos Ins. (modern)
- Melos (island) connection Aegaeum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Ag. Helene connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Ag. Ioannes connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Ag. Kyriake connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Angathia connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Bounali tou Barba Spiro located on Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Emborio connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Kaminia connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Kato Komia connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Korphos connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Melos (settlement) connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Palaiokhori connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Pelekoudi connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Pelos Pyrgaki connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phylakopi connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Pollonia connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Probatas connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Rema connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Ribari connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sta Glastria connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Stoloi connection Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Tria Pigadia part of (physical/topographic) Melos (island) (unspecified date range)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 G4 Melos Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Melos Is.
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, Georgios Tsolakis, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, and Tom Elliott, 'Melos (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570475> [accessed: 30 September 2023]
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