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ID: 5004292
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004292
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tenea (deserted settlement)  Tenea (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 022 52 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 22.8660  decimal degrees

Note: Was large ancient city extending between modern Chiliomodhion & Klenia; was famed for its sanctuary of Apollo; most of the Corinthian colonists of Syracuse came from Tenea in 8th cen. BCE; was independent in Hellenistic period; city survived under Romans.

Names:
Tenea (preferred,C,V)
Τενέα (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 Tenea (deserted settlement)  ....................  Tenea (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  was thriving center by 1st mill. BCE, survived even after Romans sacked Corinth in 146 BC
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Τενέα..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..............  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World online (2000-)
Tenea..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 892-893
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 892-893
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)

 

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