Heraclea Minoa was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia, situated on the southern coast of Sicily near the mouth of the river Halycus, about 25 kilometers west of Agrigentum. Its ruins lie near the modern town of the same name, in the comune of Cattolica Eraclea, Italy.
Facts
Founding Year Latitude37.393953 degrees north 2 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Heraclea Minoa (Wikipedia)
History
Archaeology has shown that the city was founded in the middle of the 6th century BC as an outpost of the Greek colony of Selinus (modern Selinunte) and was finally abandoned around the beginning of the 1st century AD.
- In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source2. Heraclea Minoa (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 37.393953, longitude 13.280747
3. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 37.394,13.2807
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 62.0
4. 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 37.25, 13.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 37.25, 13.25
37.25 13.25 Csa
5. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Rome; IT has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Europe/Rome; IT has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Dec 12 ... 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT
Wikidata: Heraclea Minoa
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