Chimaira
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Strabo places the myth of the Lycian monster Chimaira in the Kragos mountains, noting a nearby chasm or ravine (φάραγξ) named after the monster that he says extends up from the shore. BAtlas 65 places the label "Chimaera" along the low pass between the Kragos and Antikragos, i.e., from the modern Sancaklık Koyu (where the ancient settlement of Kalabantia was located) to roughly the area of the modern village of Boğaziçi in Turkey's Seydikemer district (Muğla Province). A western neighborhood of that village, Avlan, preserves the modern name of the ravine identified in RE Kragos 1, "Tal von Alwan" (sic) and in BAtlDir: "Avlan valley".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638801
36.4252455756, 29.1760783383
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Label Location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 930 meters.
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- Χίμαιρα φάραγξ (Chimaira pharanx: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Avlan valley (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Tal von Alwan (German, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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- Chimaera (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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valley
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 65 B5 Chimaera
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Avlan valley
C. Foss, S. Mitchell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Chimaira: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638801> [accessed: 21 May 2026]
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