Oropos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.S. Traill Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J.S. Traill Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 08, 2022 12:28 AM
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History
Oropos was an ancient settlement and port located on the border between Boeotia and Attica, and was source of ongoing disputes in antiquity. Colonists from Eretria founded Oropos.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580044
38.3194635, 23.7899985
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 43 (750 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 21310 (750 BC - AD 640)
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- Ὠρωπὸς (Oropos: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 640)
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settlement, port
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 59 C1 Oropos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Skala Oropou
J.S. Traill, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Oropos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580044> [accessed: 04 October 2023]
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