Pimolisa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 23, 2021 04:47 PM
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History
A fortified town of Paphlagonia on the Halys river, Pimolisa had been destroyed by Strabo's time. The district retained a memory of its name, however.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/845039
40.9780582, 34.8062245
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Osmancık (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pimolisa (330 BC - AD 640)
- Πιμωλισηνή (Pimolisene: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Sandarakourgion Oros located near Pimolisa (unspecified date range)
settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 86 E3 Pimolisa
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Osmancık
C. Foss, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Pimolisa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/845039> [accessed: 11 October 2025]
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