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  2. Elis - Wikipedia

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    Elis also known as Ellis or Ilia (Greek: Ηλεία, Eleia) is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until 2011 it was Elis Prefecture, covering the same territory.

  3. Ancient Elis - Wikipedia

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    Ancient regions of Peloponnese (southern mainland Greece) Ancient Peloponnese states Elis ( / ˈ iː l ɪ s / [ 1 ] ) or Eleia / ɪ ˈ l aɪ . ə / ( Greek : Ήλιδα , romanized : Ilida , Attic Greek : Ἦλις , romanized: Ēlis /ɛ̂ːlis/ ; Elean : Ϝᾶλις /wâːlis/ , ethnonym : Ϝᾱλείοι [ 2 ] ) is an ancient district in ...

  4. Ilion, Greece - Wikipedia

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    Ilion lies southeast of Mount Aigaleo, 6 km (4 mi) northwest of Athens.The municipal town has an area of 9.453 km 2. [4] Neighbouring municipalities and towns are Agioi Anargyroi-Kamatero to the north and east, Petroupoli to the northwest and Peristeri to the south.

  5. Geography of the Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    Map of Homeric Greece based on the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad (right-click on map to enlarge). The locations mentioned in the narratives of Odysseus's adventures have long been debated. Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca and its neighbours).

  6. Troy - Wikipedia

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    According to Herodotus, the Persian king Xerxes sacrificed 1,000 cattle at the sanctuary of Athena Ilias while marching towards Greece. [68] Following the Persian defeat in 480–479, Ilion and its territory became part of the continental possessions of Mytilene and remained under Mytilenaean control until the unsuccessful Mytilenean revolt in ...

  7. Vergina Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Vergina Sun (Greek: Ήλιος της Βεργίνας, romanized: Ilios tis Vergínas, lit. 'Sun of Vergina'), also known as the Star of Vergina, Vergina Star or Argead Star, is a rayed solar symbol first appearing in ancient Greek art of the period between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. The Vergina Sun proper has sixteen triangular rays ...

  8. Geography of Greece - Wikipedia

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    Topographic map of Greece. Greece is located in South Eastern Europe, bordering the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a peninsular country, with an archipelago of about 3,000 islands. It has a total area of 131,957 km 2 (50,949 sq mi), [6] of which land area is 130,647 km 2 and internal waters (lakes and rivers) account for 1,310 km 2.

  9. Tros (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Tros (/ ˈ t r ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Τρώς, Ancient Greek:) was the founder of the kingdom of Troy, of which the city of Ilios, founded by his son Ilus took the same name, and the son of Erichthonius by Astyoche (daughter of the river god Simoeis) [1] or of Ilus I [citation needed], from whom he inherited the throne.