Midaion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Drew Bear Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T. Drew Bear Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 15, 2025 11:37 AM
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A city in Phrygia named after its legendary founder, king Midas.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/609473
39.80007435, 30.84518185
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Karahöyük (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Μιδάειον (Midaion: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Midaion part of (regional) Phrygia Epiktetos (unspecified date range)
- Midaion connection Tembris (river) (unspecified date range)
- Midaion next place in route Trikomia 3 (30 BC - AD 640)
- Trikomia 3 located near Midaion (unspecified date range)
settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 62 E2 Midaion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Karahüyük
T. Drew Bear, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Midaion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/609473> [accessed: 12 June 2025]
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