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ID: 7010731
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010731
Record Type:
administrative
Chaironeia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 022 27 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in narrow Kephissos plain; was the gateway to Boiotia; had Neolithic settlement, but then apparently none until after Mycenaean period; had been held to have been the Arne described by Homer, though this is now considered doubtful.
Names:
Chaironeia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Chaironaia
(
C
,
V
)
Heronia
(
C
,
V
)
Kápraina
(
NA
,
V
,
Greek (transliterated)
,
U
)
Chaeronea
(
H
,
V
)
Kapraina
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Region of Central Greece
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Boeotia
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Chaironeia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
inhabited in Neolithic times
town (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Chaeronea..........
[
GRLPSC
]
....................
GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Chaironaia..........
[
GRLPSC
]
.......................
GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Chaironeia..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
215-216
Heronia..........
[
VP
]
.................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Kapraina..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
215-216
Kápraina..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................
GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-818935
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
215-216
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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