Kissidai? Pr.
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).
Last modified
Mar 29, 2023 01:44 AM
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History
An ancient place, mentioned in the so-called Stadiasmus Maris Magni, that was probably a promontory (cape) and can likely be identified with the modern İblis Burnu (Cape İblis/Cape Angistro on the Turkish coast of the Gulf of Fethiye).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638922
36.53333, 29.01667
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: GeoNames location of İblis Burnu (modern) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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- Κισσίδαι (Kissidai: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Kissidai? Pr. (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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cape, promontory
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- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 65 B4 Kissidai? Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: İblis Burnu
C. Foss, S. Mitchell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kissidai? Pr.: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638922> [accessed: 20 June 2025]
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