Dema wall
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
Feb 28, 2024 04:00 PM
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History
tags:
fortification,
extant remains
The so-called Dema wall was a built fortification of ancient Attica that was intended to a close a gap between between Aigaleos and Parnes. The wall's course originally ran more than 4 km.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/585132
38.0742921046, 23.668042348
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Dema Wall (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of The Dema Wall (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Dema Wall (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Dema wall located at Dema (unspecified date range)
- Dema Tower located near Dema wall (unspecified date range)
wall (defensive), wall
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 59 B2
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Dema
J.S. Traill, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Dema wall: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/585132> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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