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<< Text Pages >> Orraon - Ancient Village or Settlement in Greece in Northern Greece

Submitted by AlexHunger on Sunday, 29 October 2006  Page Views: 3829

Multi-periodSite Name: Orraon
Country: Greece
NOTE: This site is 14.743 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Northern Greece Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Arta  Nearest Village: Ammotopos
Latitude: 39.271457N  Longitude: 20.926160E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Ancient Village or Settlement in Northern Greece

Ancient Orraon was founded and fortified between about 370 BCE, by Alketas, the king of the Molossoi. The settlement was destroyed by the Romans in 167 BCE, subsequently rebuilt and was finally abandoned by its inhabitants in 31 BCE.
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