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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia II - Lindos - History

Lindos was founded by the Dorian Greeks who arrived in about the 10th century BC. It was one of six Dorian cities in the area known as the Dorian Hexapolis. The eastern location of Rhodes made it a natural meeting place between the Greeks and the Phoenicians, and by the 8th century Lindos was a major trading centre. Its importance declined after the foundation of the city of Rhodes in the late 5th century. In classical times the acropolis of Lindos was dominated by the massive temple of Athena Lindia, which attained its final form in ...

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Antioch - Archaeology

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Cappadocia

In ancient geography, Cappadocia (spelled Kapadokya in Turkish) (Greek: Καππαδοκία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). In the time of Herodotus the Cappadocians occupied the whole region from Mount Taurus to the Euxine (Black Sea). Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of Mount Taurus, to the east by the Euphrates, north by Pontus, and west vaguely by the great central salt lake. But it is impossible to defin ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Chersonesos

Chersonesos (Greek Χερσόνησος, also Chersones, Khersones, Korsun, Russian and Ukrainian: Херсонес; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimea, known then as the Tauric Chersonese. The colony was established in the ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Byzantium

Byzantium was an ancient Greek city-state, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas. The name "Byzantium" is a Latinization of the original Thracian-Greek name Byzantion (Βυζάντιον; see also List of traditional Greek place names). After siding with Pescennius Niger against the victorious Septimius Severus the city was besieged by Rome and suffered extensive damage in AD 196. Byzantium was rebuilt by the now Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and quickly regained its previous ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Cyclades

The Cyclades, from the Greek Κυκλάδες, ("circular," modern Greek Kykládes; see also List of traditional Greek place names) form an island group south-east of the mainland of Greece. They are a part of the vast number of islands which constitute the Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea. The name was originally used to indicate those islands that formed a rough circle around the sacred island of Delos (map). The Cyclades are comprised of around 220 islands, with the major ones being Amorgos, Anafi, Ándros, ...

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Cyclades - History

Cyclades - Archaeology

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea (Greek: Αιγαίον Πέλαγος, Aigaion Pelagos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Greek peninsula and Anatolia (Asia Minor, now part of Turkey). It is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus. In ancient times there were various explanations for the name "Aegean." It was said to have been named after the town of Aegae; Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea; and Aegeus, the fath ...

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Aegean Sea - Port Towns

List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Chalcedon

Chalcedon (Χαλκεδον, sometimes transliterated by purists as Chalkedon; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari (modern Üsküdar). It was a Megarian colony founded on a site so obviously inferior to that which was within view on the opposite shore, that it received from ...

List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Agrigentum

Agrigentum is an ancient Greek city on the island Sicily, also known as Agrigento, Acragas or Akragas (see also List of traditional Greek place names). The city was built on a cliff on the south-coast of Sicily, surrounded by two rivers (the Hypsas and the Akragas). This position meant that the city was easy to defend in times of war. The remains of the ancient city, such as the temple of Concordia, the temple of Zeus (or Olympaeon), the temple of Heracles and "Juno Lacinia", are all dated back to the 5th century BC. Especially the temple of Concordia i ...

List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Colophon

There are two definitions of the word "colophon": (1) an ancient Greek city, and (2) a tablet inscription placed at the end of an ancient Near East book or manuscript. This article is about the ancient city of Colophon. For the publishing information found in a book, see colophon (book). Colophon (Gr. Κολοφών; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a titular see of Asia Minor. It was one of the twelve Ionian cities, between Lebedos (ruins near Hypsili-Hissar) and Eph ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Argolis

Argolis (Greek, Modern: Αργολίδα Argolida, Ancient/Katharevousa: Αργολίς—still the official, formal name; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is within located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese. Most arable land lies in the central part. Its primary agricultural resources are oranges and olives. Beaches are founded in the south and east. Mountains an ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Ephesus

Ephesus (Greek: Έφεσσος; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, located in Lydia where the Cayster river flows into the Aegean Sea (in modern day Turkey). It was founded by colonists principally from Athens. The ruins of Ephesus are a major tourist attraction, especially for people travelling to Turkey by cruise ship via the port of Kusadasi. Ephesus - Ancient Ephesus. Ephesus is believed by many to be the Apasa (or Ab ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Greece

Greece, (Greek: Ελλάδα, older form: Ελλάς, Hellas), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dimokratía; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a country in southern Europe on the tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, FYROM, and Albania to the north and with Turkey to the east. The waters of the Aegean Sea border Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Sea to the west and south ...

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Greece - Religion

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Delphi

Delphi (Greek Δελφοί - Delphoi; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece. In ancient times it was the site of the Delphic Sibyl, dedicated to the god Apollo. Delphi was revered throughout the Greek world as the site of the ομφαλός (omphalos) stone, the centre of the universe. In the inner εστία (hestia), or hearth, of the Temple of Delphic Apollo (Απόλλων Δελφίνιος - Apollon Delphinios), an άσβεστος φλό ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Boeotia

Boeotia or Beotia (World Book «bee OH shuh») (Greek Βοιωτια; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was the central area of ancient Greece. It is also a prefecture of modern Greece, see Boeotia Prefecture. The oldest city of Greece was sited there and was named Graia (Γραία) which means ancient or old. From the name of this city the word "Greece" derives. Aristotle said that this city was created before the deluge. The same assertion about the origins of Graia city was found also in an ancient marb ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Chios

Chios (Italian: Scio, Turkish: Sakız, Χίος; alternative transliterations Khios and Hios, see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. The population is about 52,290 (census of 2001), with an area of 904 km². The capital is also called Chios or Chora; it is a port and the island's chief town. The island is famous for its scenery and good climate. Its chief export is mastic but it also produces olives, figs, and wine. Chios - History. Chios wa ...

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Achaea

Achaea (Greek: Αχαΐα, Achaïa; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a province on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus (1,902 m, the northernmost mountain range in the Peloponnese) projects. Achaea is bounded on the west by the territory of Elis, on the east by tha ...

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Achaea - Football/soccer

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List of traditional Greek place names: Encyclopedia - Edirne

Edirne is a city in Thrace, the westernmost part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. It has a population of 119,298 (2000 census). The city was known in English until after the First World War as Adrianople (see below, and also List of traditional Greek place names). The city was founded eponymously by the Roman Emperor Hadrian on the site of a previous Thracian settlement known as Uskadama, Uskudama or Uskodama. Conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1362, the city served as the Ottoman capital from 1365 until 1453. Edirne is the capital of Edirne Province and ...