Messenia
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
Jul 06, 2020 10:54 AM
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History
Messenia was the southwestern district of the Peloponnesus. It was bounded on the east by Laconia, on the north by Elis and Arcadia, and on the south and west by the sea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570480
37.0557778, 21.9809211
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (750 BC - AD 300)
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- Messenia (750 BC - AD 300)
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- Messene capital of Messenia (unspecified date range)
- Achaia (spring) part of (regional) Messenia (unspecified date range)
- Nichoria part of (regional) Messenia (unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Thouria part of (regional) Messenia (330 BC - 30 BC)
region
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 B3 Messenia
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G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Messenia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570480> [accessed: 08 August 2022]
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