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Pythagoreio (Greek: Πυθαγόρειο) is a town and municipal unit on the island of Samos, North Aegean, Greece. Before the 2011 local government reform, Pythagoreio was a municipality . Since 2019, it is a municipal unit of East Samos . [ 2 ]
Excavations into the town itself have uncovered the street plan of the ancient city, including a sewage system and both public and religious buildings. In addition, the remains of Roman buildings can be found on the site, including an agora, public baths, and stadium, and town houses. [2] A recently-built museum is located in the modern city ...
They reached the city of Metapontum, where they took shelter in the temple of the Muses and died there of starvation after forty days without food. [ 27 ] [ 92 ] [ 96 ] [ 97 ] Another tale recorded by Porphyry claims that, as Pythagoras's enemies were burning the house, his devoted students laid down on the ground to make a path for him to ...
Site plan of the sanctuary. The numbers match the bold numerals in the text of the article. The Heraion of Samos was a large sanctuary to the goddess Hera, on the island of Samos, Greece, 6 km southwest of the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreion).
From 1 January 2011, in accordance with the Kallikratis plan, the administrative system of Greece was drastically overhauled.For the current list, see List of municipalities of Greece (2011).
The island of Samos became one of the major naval powers in the Aegean in the sixth century BC, culminating in the reign of the tyrant Polycrates.In the fifth century, Herodotus reports a mole surrounded the harbour, with a length of more than two stades out to sea (over 400 metres), and reached a depth of twenty orguia (c. 20 metres).
Samos (/ ˈ s eɪ m ɒ s /, [2] also US: / ˈ s æ m oʊ s, ˈ s ɑː m ɔː s /; [3] [4] [5] Greek: Σάμος, romanized: Sámos, Greek pronunciation:) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese archipelago, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the 1.6-kilometre-wide (1.0 mi) Mycale Strait.
The tunnel 1,036 m (3,399 ft) long [citation needed] conveyed water from a spring near Mount Kastro through the mountain into the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreio) [3]: 149 [1]: 27 . It was the longest one of its time [citation needed] and it still exists.