Iasos
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.332, 22.417
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town of Laconia, location uncertain
History
Iasus or Iasos was a town in ancient Laconia, which Pausanias describes as belonging to the Achaeans. William Smith conjectures that Iasus may be the same as Oeum; the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World conjecture that it may be the same as Caryae.