Basilica of Lechaion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 16, 2020 09:47 PM
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History
The basilica of Lechaion was dedicated to Leonides, the bishop of Athens. It is one of the most important early Byzantine monuments in the Peloponnese.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/660349527
37.9339993, 22.8841798
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Παλαιοχριστιανική Βασιλική Λεχαίου (AD 300 - AD 640)
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- Basilica of Lechaion located at Lechaion (unspecified date range)
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church, monastery (deprecated)
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- Related:
Pleiades
Built ca. AD 450 and destroyed by earthquake in 551.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Basilica of Lechaion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/660349527> [accessed: 10 December 2023]
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