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The Territory of Pharos

Marin Zaninović

Abstract

The ancient Greek settlement of Pharos, today the town of Stari Grad on the island of Hvar, was founded by the Parian colonists in 385/4 B. C. (Diod, XV, 13). The large and well protected bay of Stari Grad is continued into the large and most fertile plain, east of Stari Grad to Vrbaska bay in a length of 5 miles. The author explains his discovery of the original Greek division of land in this plain in 1976, about which he spoke first at the VII. Congress of the Greek and Latin epigraphy at Constantza, Romania in 1977, and further elaborated it in his paper "Greek Land Division at Pharos", Archaeologia iugoslavica, vol. 20-21, Beograd 1980-81, pp. 91-95. The regular lots of the size 1 X 5 stadia are still well preserved and can be seen on the aerial photos. The regularity and the state of preservation of this ancient Greek grid make this chora one of the best preserved examples of the Greek cadastres in the Mediterranean.

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Hrčak ID:

123715

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/123715

Publication date:

30.6.1997.

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