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ID: 5004234
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004234
Record Type:
administrative
Nea Plevrón (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 24 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.4000
decimal degrees
Long: 021 24 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 21.4000
decimal degrees
Note:
Ancient city was founded to the South of Pleuron when that city was destroyed by Demetrios II of Macedon; was a large rectangular city located on a vast terrace 243 meters above sea level; walls date to around 230 BCE.
Names:
Nea Plevrón
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Nea Pleuron
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ellás
(nation) (
P
)
............
Dytikí Elláda
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Aitolía kai Akarnanía
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Nea Plevrón
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in late 3rd cen. BCE
archaeological site (
C
)
............
ruins include remnants of Cyclopean walls
inhabited place (
H
)
Related geographic places:
successor of ....
Pleuron
.......... (lost settlement)
......................
(World, Europe, Ellás, Dytikí Elláda, Aetolia and Acarnania regional division) [5004236]
Sources and Contributors:
Nea Pleuron..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
.......................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
717-718
Nea Plevrón..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
717-718
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
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