Xantheia/Xanthi

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Tom Elliott

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, E.N. Borza, Jeffrey Becker, Enes Yılandiloğlu

Last modified Nov 05, 2025 10:18 PM — History

The medieval-modern inheritor of the ancient city of Xantheia (q.v.), located as much as 50 kilometers west-northwest of the probable location of the ancient city. This Xanthi is first named in documents of the 10th century CE.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630785464

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.13805, 24.8864089

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Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Xanthi (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ξάνθεια (Xantheia: Ancient Greek, AD 850 - AD 1923)
- Ξάνθη (Xanthi: Modern Greek, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- اسکته (İskete: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1400 - AD 1499)
- İskeçe (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Xantheia/Xanthi makes connections with:

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Xantheia/Xanthi receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, E.N. Borza, Jeffrey Becker, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Xantheia/Xanthi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630785464> [accessed: 10 December 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630785464 |title=Places: 630785464 (Xantheia/Xanthi) |author=Elliott, T. |accessdate=December 10, 2025 3:57 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}