Selinous/Traianopolis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Mitchell
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 09, 2020 11:29 AM
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History
Selinous/Traianopolis was a city of Cilicia Aspera and counted among the chief coastal cities of Cilicia. It is perhaps best known as the place where Trajan died in A.D. 117 en route to Rome from his campaigns in the East.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648772
36.258509, 32.282734
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Selinitis (unspecified date range)
- Selinous (750 BC - AD 640)
- Traianopolis (30 BC - AD 300)
- None
settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 66 A4 Selinous/Traianopolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kale Tepe, Gazipaşa, formerly Silinti
S. Mitchell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Selinous/Traianopolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648772> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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