Platanus
Πλάτανος
Platanus (Πλάτανος, Plb. 5.68; Steph.B. s. v. Πλατάνη; J. AJ 16.11.1: Eth. Πλατανεύς), a town of Phoenicia, described by Josephus (l.c.) as a, village of the Sidonians, and situated upon a pass between Mount Lebanon and the sea. (Robinson, Biblical Researches, vol. iii. p. 433.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.