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Gadilon/Helega?

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Sean Gillies, Diane Braund, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 24, 2026 09:52 PM — History
Ancient Gadilon, a town of Pontus, is possibly to be identified with a "Helega" reported by the Peutinger map. It is also probably to be associated with the Ottoman-modern Turkish Bafra.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857128

41.571325, 35.894016
    • Less than certain: Bafra (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
    • Gadilon (330 BC - AD 300)
    • Gadilonitis (unspecified date range)
    • Less than certain: Helega (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
    • Less than certain: Bafra (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 A3 Gadilon/Helega?

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bafra?


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T. Sinclair, David Braund, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Sean Gillies, Diane Braund, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Gadilon/Helega?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857128> [accessed: 11 July 2026] 

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