Geronthrae, also recorded as Geronthrai, Geranthrae or Gerenthrae, was a town of ancient Laconia in Greece, situated in a commanding position on the southwestern face of a mountain above the plain of the Eurotas river. The traveler Pausanias recorded that the town held a temple and sacred grove of the god Ares, where a yearly festival excluding women was celebrated, and that fountains of drinking water surrounded its agora while a temple of Apollo stood on its acropolis.
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Latitude36.992193 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Geronthrae (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 36.992193, longitude 22.706912
2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 36.9922,22.7069
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 353.0
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 36.75, 22.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.75, 22.75
36.75 22.75 Csa
4. GeoNames: Geráki - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 251411, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.03 km)Quote, cities500 record 251411, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.03 km)
36.99227 22.70663 P PPL GR ESYE25 42 9250 1323 360 Europe/Athens
Geronthrae
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Wikidata: Geronthrae
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