Melandryna (Cyprus) Akanthou/Panagia Pergaminiotissa - Μελανδρύνα

Melandryna, settlement, possibly Pergamon?, near Panagia Pergaminiotissa monastery, Akanthou/Tatlisu, Famagusta, Cyprus
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Latitude: 35.406700
Longitude: 33.783000
Confidence: High

Place ID: 354338UMel
Time period: HRL
Region: Cyprus
Country: Cyprus
Department: Famagusta
Mod: Akanthou/Panagia Pergaminiotissa

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Modern Description: Pergamon: On the N coast. The ruins of a small town identified by Hogarth with Pergamon extend around the Church of Panaghia Pergaminiotissa, due NE of Akanthou village, some 500 m from the sea. A low, rocky hill to the N may have been the acropolis. Nothing is known of the founding or history of this small town, which seems to have flourished in Graeco-Roman and in Early Byzantine times. The town site is now a field of ruins partly under cultivation and partly overgrown with scrub. The acropolis has been quarried but on its summit a single pillar of rock is still standing while on its gentle slope two depressions have been cut, connected with each other by a flight of four steps. The site is unexcavated. (PECS: K. NICOLAOU)
Trismegistos Geo: 58597

Info: Princeton Encyclopedia

(Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, from Perseus Project)


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