Historical place profile
Kinolis
An ancient emporion on the southern coast of the Black Sea, mentioned in multiple ancient sources. It is probably to be identified with the subsequent site of "Ginolu Kalesi", a now-ruined 9th/10th century CE castle in the modern municipal territory of Çatalzeytin in Turkey's Kastamonu Province.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:844984
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:844984
- Place type
- castle, ruin, settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.965710, 34.165575
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient emporion on the southern coast of the Black Sea, mentioned in multiple ancient sources. It is probably to be identified with the subsequent site of "Ginolu Kalesi", a now-ruined 9th/10th century CE castle in the modern municipal territory of Çatalzeytin in Turkey's Kastamonu Province.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 86 E2 Kinolis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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