Drepanon (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D. Rupp Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D. Rupp Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 10, 2025 04:56 PM
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History
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 72 A3 Drepanon Pr.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707503
34.8994557, 32.3161058
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Cape Drepanum (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Δρέπανον ἄκρον (Drepanon akron: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Drepanon Pr. (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Drepanon (promontory) part of (physical/topographic) Cyprus (island) (unspecified date range)
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cape, promontory, promuntory
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 72 A3 Drepanon Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Cape Drepanon
D. Rupp, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Drepanon (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707503> [accessed: 17 February 2026]
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