Pleiae
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.876, 22.803
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Pleiae or Pleiai, also known as Palaea or Palaia (Παλαιά), was a town of ancient Laconia, mentioned by Livy as the place where Nabis pitched his camp in 192 BCE.
History
Pleiae or Pleiai, also known as Palaea or Palaia (Παλαιά), was a town of ancient Laconia, mentioned by Livy as the place where Nabis pitched his camp in 192 BCE. It must have been situated in the plain of Leuce, which lay between Acriae and Asopus. The name of the place occurs in an inscription.