Historical place profile
Side
Pausanias tells us that the ancient settlement of Side was named for a daughter of Danaus and implies its location to have been somewhere on the Malea peninsula of mainland Greece, perhaps in the vicinity of Boiai (modern Neapoli Vion). Camp (BAtlas 58) tentatively places it at modern Velanidia.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570669
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570669
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 36.478014, 23.144735
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Pausanias tells us that the ancient settlement of Side was named for a daughter of Danaus and implies its location to have been somewhere on the Malea peninsula of mainland Greece, perhaps in the vicinity of Boiai (modern Neapoli Vion). Camp (BAtlas 58) tentatively places it at modern Velanidia.
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 58 E5 Side
Source and reuse
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Research path
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