Mura Greche

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Feb 14, 2018 09:49 AM — History

tags: fortification, extant remains

The so-called "Mura Greche" are remains of the later third century B.C. fortifications of Neapolis.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/72612822

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.8497821, 14.2520542

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of mura Greche (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Le mura greche (Italian, modern)

Mura Greche makes connections with:

Mura Greche located at Parthenope/Neapolis (unspecified date range)

Mura Greche receives connections from:

None

Place type:
wall (of a city), city wall

References:

See Further:

Wikipedia (Italian) Mura di Napoli

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Mura Greche: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/72612822> [accessed: 26 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

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