Achaia (settlement)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 17, 2020 02:55 PM
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History
An ancient settlement, said by Strabo to have been located in Areia (i.e., in or near the modern province of Herat, Afghanistan). Its precise location is unknown.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60403
34.0757443087, 62.2538929699
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- Ἀχαΐα (Achaia: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Achaia (settlement) part of (administrative) Ar(e)ia (unspecified date range)
- Achaia (settlement) part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (330 BC - 30 BC)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 Achaia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: city in Areia
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Achaia (settlement): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60403> [accessed: 30 December 2024]
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