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ID: 5004280
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004280
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Solygeia (inhabited place)  Solygeia (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 47 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.7830  decimal degrees
Long: 023 04 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.0660  decimal degrees

Note: Town on or near the site of an ancient battle. Known from literary sources as the site of a battle in the summer of 425 BCE, when an Athenian force led by Nikias sailed to the western end of the Saronic Gulf. It landed in Corinthian territory near the village of Solygea, where they engaged the Corinthians in a pitched battle.

Names:
Solygeia (preferred,C,V)
Solygea (C,V)
Solygia (C,V)
Σολυγεία (C,V,Greek,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Greece (nation)  ........  Greece (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Peloponnese (region (administrative division))  ............  Peloponnese (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Corinth (regional division)  ................  Corinth (regional division) (P)
Hierarchy of Solygeia (inhabited place)  ....................  Solygeia (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
historic site (C)

Related geographic places:
possibly identified as ....  Galatákion .......... (inhabited place)
........................................  (World, Europe, Greece, Pelopónnisos region, Kórinthos regional division) [7229199]

Sources and Contributors:
Σολυγεία..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Solygea..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Atlas of Greek & Roman World (1981) map 14a
Solygeia..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
.................  Stroud, Thucydides and the Battle of Solygeia (1971) title
Solygia..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Atlas of Greek & Roman World (1981) map 14a
..................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Stroud, Thucydides and the Battle of Solygeia (1971)

 

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