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ID: 5003757
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5003757
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Cnidus (deserted settlement)  Cnidus (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 40 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 027 22 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 27.3667  decimal degrees

Note: Site of an ancient city 60 miles southwest of Muğla on the Resadiye pensinsula. It was one of the cities of the Dorian Hexapolis. Cnidus submitted to Persia ca. 545 BCE, and joined the Delian League against Persia in 479 BCE. Ruins include portions of a Hellenistic house and a theater.

Names:
Cnidus (preferred,C,V)
Knidos (C,V)  ............ ancient
Cnidus Nova (C,V)
Cnidos (C,V)
Resadiye (H,V)
Dadya (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Muğla (province)  ............  Muğla (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Cnidus (deserted settlement)  ................  Cnidus (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  originally a Spartan colony; abandoned in the 7th cen. AD
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Cnidos..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Cnidus..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 3 March 2009
Cnidus Nova..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 47
Dadya..........  [VP]
..............  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Knidos..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Google Maps online (2000-) accessed 9 March 2020
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8623
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Resadiye..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8623
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 47
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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