Placia, also called Plakia or Placa, was a town of ancient Mysia on the coast of the Propontis, at the foot of the Mysian Olympus east of Cyzicus, tentatively located near Kursunlu in Bursa Province, Turkey. According to Herodotus its Pelasgian inhabitants preserved their own ancient language. The town is recorded in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax and by later writers including Pomponius Mela, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Pliny the Elder.
Facts
Latitude40.397648 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Placia (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 40.397648, longitude 28.27741
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 40.3976,28.2774
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 30.0
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, 28.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.25, 28.25
40.25 28.25 Csa
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Istanbul; TR has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Europe/Istanbul; TR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 ... 2:00 EU EE%sT 2016 Sep 7 3:00 - %z
Wikidata: Placia
Wikidata Q17625216, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.