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ID: 5004234
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004234
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Nea Plevrón (deserted settlement)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Greece (nation)  ........  Greece (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Region of Western Greece (region (administrative division))  ............  Region of Western Greece (region (administrative division)) (P,U)
Hierarchy of Aetolia and Acarnania (regional division)  ................  Aetolia and Acarnania (regional division) (P)
Hierarchy of Nea Plevrón (deserted settlement)  ....................  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, Greece, Region of Western Greece, 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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