Amorion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Drew Bear
Creators: T. Drew Bear
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Ingrid Luo
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 15, 2026 08:39 AM
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History
A Hellenistic and Roman settlement that eventually prospered under the Byzantine Empire, Amorion began minting its own coins in the second century BCE. Its decline comes following a sacking in the ninth century at the hands of Caliph Al-Mu'tasim.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/609302
39.0201828675, 31.295562595
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Amorium (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 62 F3 Amorion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Hisar Köy
T. Drew Bear, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, and Ingrid Luo, 'Amorion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/609302> [accessed: 14 September 2026]
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