Abia
castle · 330 BC – 2099 AD
An ancient coastal city of Messenia that modern scholars locate in an area known in modern times as Palaiochora, i.e., in the modern village that now takes its name from the ancient one. Ruins of a medieval (Venetian?) castle are generally assumed to have been built on the ancient site.
- Coordinates
- 36.96519, 22.14232
- Also known as
- Avias (el), Palaiochora (el), Αβία (el)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
- Wikidata · CC0 1.0Wikidata (CC0)