Thera (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, Tom Elliott, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, John McChesney-Young
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Last modified
Sep 21, 2023 06:10 PM
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History
An island of the southern Aegean Sea, Thera is the southernmost of the Cyclades. The island's present form is the result of a Middle Bronze Age volcanic eruption that destroyed a Minoan settlement on the island.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599973
36.416667, 25.433333
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Thera Ins. (modern)
- Thera (island) connection Santorini Archipelago (unspecified date range)
- Akrotiri connection Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Columbus located on Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Eleusis located on Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Emporion located on Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Kyra Panagia connection Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Palea Kameni connection Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Thera connection Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 61 A5 Thera Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Santorini GRE
C. Foss, G. Reger, Sean Gillies, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, Tom Elliott, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and John McChesney-Young, 'Thera (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599973> [accessed: 01 October 2023]
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