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ID: 7011104
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011104

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kiáton (inhabited place)  Kiáton (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 01 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.0167  decimal degrees
Long: 022 45 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 22.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient city was tied to Argos; Orthagorid tyrants ruled from ca. 656 BCE, were removed by Sparta in 6th century BCE; was great center of painters and sculptors; city was moved 4 km inland in 303 BCE (modern Sikión), though habitation at this site continued too.

Names:
Kiáton (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Kiato (C,V)
Sikionía (C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Kiáto (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Sikion (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Sikonia (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Sikyon (H,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 Peloponnese (region (administrative division))  ............  Peloponnese (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Corinth (regional division)  ................  Corinth (regional division) (P)
Hierarchy of Kiáton (inhabited place)  ....................  Kiáton (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established in ancient times
town (C)

Related geographic places:
moved to ....  Sikión .......... (inhabited place)
..............  (World, Europe, Greece, Pelopónnisos region, Kórinthos regional division) [7011098]
..............  in 303 BCE

Sources and Contributors:
Kiato..........  [VP]
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 839-840
Kiáto..........  [VP]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Kiáton..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 83
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 100
Sikion..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Sikionía..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 83
Sikonia..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Sikyon..........  [VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 839-840
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -820508
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 839-840
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 83
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 100
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1113
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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