Minoa (promontory)
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
Dec 14, 2023 08:31 PM
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History
The "tied island" known today as Monemvasia, located along the southeast coast of the Peloponnese. Pausanias referred to it as "Akra Minoa".
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570487
36.6879144863, 23.0497356461
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Μονεμβασιά coastline (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Minoa Pr. (330 BC - AD 640)
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- Μονεμβασία (Monemvasia: Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Minoa (promontory) connection Peloponnesus/Peloponnesos/Peloponnese (unspecified date range)
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peninsula, cape, promontory, island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 E4 Minoa Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Monemvasia
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Minoa (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570487> [accessed: 24 March 2025]
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