Echinus, also called Echinos, was a town and polis of Phthiotis or Malis in ancient Thessaly, situated on the Malian Gulf between Lamia and Larissa Cremaste in a fertile district, said to take its name from Echion, born from the teeth of a dragon. Demosthenes records that Philip II of Macedon took the town from the Thebans and granted it to the Malians in 342 BCE. It later belonged to the Aetolian League from around 235 BCE until 210 BCE, when Philip V of Macedon captured it after a lengthy siege; Rome took the city in 193 BCE and returned it to the Malians in 189 BCE. Strabo lists Echinus among the Greek cities destroyed by an earthquake.
Facts
Latitude38.895473 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Echinus (Thessaly) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 38.895473, longitude 22.726209
2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 38.8955,22.7262
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 86.0
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 38.75, 22.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.75, 22.75
38.75 22.75 Csa
4. GeoNames: Akhinós - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 265469, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.32 km)Quote, cities500 record 265469, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.32 km)
38.89284 22.72483 P PPL GR ESYE24 29 9164 726 34 Europe/Athens
Echinus (Thessaly) (Wikipedia)
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