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ID: 5004281
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004281
Record Type:
administrative
Kalydon (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 021 32 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 21.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Was strongly fortified ancient city of Aitolia located on N coast of gulf of Patras, on S ridges of Mount Arakynthos; in the Iliad it was the site of Herakles' battle with the river god Achelos & of hunt for the Kalydonian boar.
Names:
Kalydon
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Evinokhorion
(
C
,
V
)
Evinokhórion
(
NA
,
V
,
Greek (transliterated)
,
U
)
Calydon
(
H
,
V
)
Kaldona
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Region of Western Greece
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Aetolia and Acarnania
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Kalydon
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
documented in Homer's Iliad, declined in Roman period & inhabitants were transferred to Nikopolis in 30 BC
archaeological site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Calydon..........
[
VP
]
.................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Evinokhorion..........
[
VP
]
.......................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Evinokhórion..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Kaldona..........
[
VP
]
.................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Kalydon..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
433
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-817115
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
433
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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