Thyssus, also spelled Thyssos, was a town of ancient Chalcidice in Macedon, in what is now northern Greece, situated on the Acte peninsula now known as Mount Athos. The historian Thucydides describes its population, like those of neighboring towns on the peninsula, as a mix of Chalcidian Greeks and other peoples including Pelasgians and Edoni, and the town appears in Athenian tribute records as a member of the Delian League between 454 and 429 BC. Thyssus sided with the Spartan commander Brasidas against Athens in 424 and 423 BC, and its site is located near the modern settlement of Skala Zographou.
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Latitude40.288017 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Thyssus (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 40.288017, longitude 24.158674
2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 40.288,24.1587
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 100.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.25, 24.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.25, 24.25
40.25 24.25 Csa
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 ... # go with EU rules instead, since Greece joined Jan 1. 2:00 EU EE%sT
Thyssus (Wikipedia)
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Thyssus or Thyssos (Ancient Greek: Θύσσος) was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedon, situated on the west or south side of the peninsula of Acte or Akte (Ακτή) peninsula (now Mount Athos), the easternmost of the three peninsulas forming the ancient Chalcidice, on its western coast, north of Cleonae.
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