Abia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. McK. Camp II, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. McK. Camp II, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 20, 2012 02:00 PM
—
History
An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
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.
Show place in Google Earth.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573047
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
-
- Abia (unspecified date range)
- None
-
None
settlement
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 Abia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Messenia: city, Homeric Ire
J. McK. Camp II, G. Reger, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Abia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573047> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573047 |title=Places: 573047 (Abia) |author=McK. Camp II, J., G. Reger |accessdate=March 26, 2025 7:26 am |publisher=Pleiades}}
This seems to be a doublet of https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570027 Abia, and should probably become Name Hire or Ire as a prior Homeric name for Abia