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ALIIS, ALIA (Ancient city) KRANIDI
The city was inhabited by fishermen from Hermione and by inhabitants from Tiryns. It did not exist in the time of Strabo.
KASTANOCHORI (Village) MEGALOPOLI
MALADRENI (Village) KOUTSOPODI
Malantreni is a natural northern boundary at Nemea's side, a village
the links Argolida and Corinthia
Counties. It is semi-mountainous, 16km from the city of Argos.
It is as lively as Schinochori
but with a more lyrical character.
The locals are also hard-working and they mostly deal with olive and
citrus trees, apricot trees and produce. Malantreni is well known for its vineyards
and it produces fine quality wines.
(text: Alexis Totsikas)
This text (extract) is cited March 2004 from the Prefecture
of Argolis tourist pamphlet.
STRAVA (Bay) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
Piney area with summer houses.
XYLOKASTRO (Small town) CORINTHIA
Built in 1260, dominated the area, was destroyed by earthuquake in 1402 and does not exist today
ASSEA (Ancient city) VALTETSI
Eurotas: River of Laconia, its sources, unites with Alpheus. Alpheus: River, sources and upper course, often vanishes under ground, tributaries, dearest of rivers to Zeus, ashes of victims kneaded with its water, wild olive first grew on its banks, women forbidden to cross it on certain days, loves Arethusa, flows through Adriatic to Ortygia, loves Artemis, images, altars, Leucippus keeps hair long for, Apollo at the, diverted by Herakles into the cattleyard of Augeas.
ITHOMI (Acropolis) MESSINIA
Pausanias claims that it is the Messenian Ithome that Homer includes in the List of Ships (Paus. 4,9,2). The truth is, however, that the Ithome mentioned by Homer must be a town in Thessaly, since it is mentioned along with other Thessalic towns (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 3, p.57, note 1).
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
TORTHYNION (Ancient city) VYTINA
Torthynium is not mentioned by Pausanias or any of the great historians. It was probably located 5,5 kms away from Nymphasia and it was the border of Megalopolis, Orchomenus and Caphya (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, p. 329, note 1).
ZOODOCHOS PIGI (Small island) ALKYONIDES
It stretches 1mile from N-NW, Cape Spilitses (38,7,3 N - 22,59,4 E) to S-SE, Cape Sotiras (38,6,4 N - 22,59,9 E), with height 68m (38,1,7 N -22,59,6 E).
ARGOLIS (Prefecture) PELOPONNISOS
GEROLIMENAS (Village) ITYLO
KONTOVAZENA (Municipality) ARCADIA
LEONIDIO (Small town) KYNOURIA
XYLOKASTRO (Small town) CORINTHIA
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AGII THEODORI (Municipality) CORINTHIA
LACONIA (Prefecture) PELOPONNISOS
AGIOS IOANNIS (Village) IREA
LYKOURESSI (Village) IREA
PALEOKASTRO (Village) GORTYS
PELOPONNISOS (Region) GREECE
University of Minnesota
Site of the University of Michigan.
University of Cincinnati
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
There is a sign at the British Museum where one can read about a deal between the Heraeans and the Helians. The deal, which was made in 540 BC, was that for 100 years the two peoples would be allies at war and peace. If one of the two parts broke the deal, it would have to offer Zeus at Olympia one talent of silver. This deal helped Heraea grow and later on nine settlements united to the town. What is more, after this deal was signed, many Heraeans won victories at Olympic Games.
MEGALI AMMOS (Seaside settlement) ZARAKAS
It is the settlement of the Kyparissi port.
AFRODISSIAS (Ancient city) VOION
Aphrodisias, a town in the S. of Laconia, on the Boeatic gulf, said to have been founded by Aeneas. (Paus. iii. 12. § 11, viii. 12. § 8.)
AKAKISSION (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLI
Akakesion: Eth. Akakesios. Α town of Arcadia in the district of Parrhasia, at
the foot of a hill of the same name, and 36 stadia on the road from Megalopolis
to Phigalea. It is said to have been founded by Acacus, son of Lycaon; and according
to some traditions Hermes was brought up at this place by Acacus, and hence derived
the surname of Acacesius. Upon the hill there was a statue in stone, in the time
of Pausanias, of Hermes Acacesius; and four stadia from the town was a celebrated
temple of Despoena. This temple probably stood on the hill, on which are now the
remains of the church of St. Elias.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
AKRIES (Ancient city) ELOS
Akriai, Akreia, Akreia: Eth. Akriates. A town of Laconia, on the eastern
side of the Laconian bay, 30 stadia S. of Helos. Strabo describes the Eurotas
as flowing into the sea between Acriae and Gythium. Acriae possessed a sanctuary
and a statue of the mother of the gods, which was said by the inhabitants of the
town to be the most ancient in the Peloponnesus. Leake was unable to discover
any remains of Acriae; the French expedition place its ruins at the harbour of
Kokinio.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
AKRORIOS (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
Acroreia (Akroreia), the mountainous district of Elis on the borders
of Arcadia, in which the rivers Peneius and Ladon take their rise. The inhabitants
of the district were called Acrocreii (Akroreioi), and their towns appear to have
been Thraustus, Alium, Opus, and Eupagium. The name is used in opposition to Koile
or Hollow Elis. Stephanus (s. v.), who is followed by many modern writers, makes
Acrocreii a town, and places it in Triphylia; but this error appears to have arisen
from confounding the Acrocreii with the Paroreatae in Triphylia. (Diod. xiv. 17;
Xen. Hell. iii. 2 § 30, vii. 4. § 14; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 203; Boblaye,
Recherches, p. 123.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
A town of Laconia near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones,
containing temples of Dionysus and Artemis. This town was distant 30 stadia from
Gerenia, but its site is unknown.
ALCYONIA (Lake) LERNA
Alcyonia (Alkuonia), a lake in Argolis, near the Lernaean grove, through which
Dionysus was said to have descended to the lower world, in order to bring back
Semele from Hades. Pausanias says that its depth was unfathomable, and that Nero
had let down several stadia of rope, loaded with lead, without finding a bottom.
As Pausanias does not mention a lake Lerna, but only a district of this name,
it is probable that the lake called Alcyonia by Pausanias is the same as the Lerna
of other writers. (Paus. ii. 37. § 5, seq.; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 473.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ALEA (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Alea (Eth. Aleos, Aleates). A town of Arcadia, between Orchomenus and Stymphalus,
contained, in the time of Pausanias, temples of the Ephesian Artemis, of Athena
Alea, and of Dionysus. It appears to have been situated in the territory either
of Stymphalus or Orchomenus. Pausanias calls Alea a town of the Maenalians; but
we ought probably to read Asea in this passage, instead of Alea. The ruins of
Alea have been discovered by the French Commission in the middle of the dark valley
of Skotini, about a mile to the NE. of the village of Buyati. Alea was never a
town of importance; but some modern writers have, though inadvertently, placed
at this town the celebrated temple of Athena Alea, which was situated at Tegea.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ALIIS, ALIA (Ancient city) KRANIDI
The name of a sea-faring people on the coast of Hermionis, who derived
their name from their fisheries. (Strab. viii. p. 373.) They gave their name to
a town on the coast of Herinionis, where the Tirynthians and Hermionians took
refuge when they were expelled from their own cities by the Argives. (Ephor. ap.
Byz. s. v. Halieis; Strab. viii. p. 373.) This town was taken about Ol. 80 by
Aneristus, the son of Sperthias, and made subject to Sparta (hos heile Halieas
[not alieas] tous ek Tirunthos, Helod. vii. 137). The district was afterwards
ravaged on more than one occasion by the Athenians. (Thuc. i. 105, ii. 56, iv.
45; Diod. xi. 78.) After the Peloponnesian War the Halieis are mentioned by Xenophon
as an autonomous people. (Xen. Hell. iv. 2. 6, vi. 2, § 3.)
The district is called e Halias by Thucydides (ii. 56, iv. 45), who
also calls the people or their town Halieis; for, in i. 105, the true reading
is es Halias, i.e. Halieas. (See Meineke, and Steph. B. s. v. Halieis.) In an
inscription we find en Halieusin. (Bockh, Inscr. no. 165.)
Scylax speaks of Halia as a port at the mouth of the Argolic gulf.
Callimachus calls the town Alycus (Alukos, Steph. B. s. v.), and by Pausanias
it is named Halice (Halike), and its inhabitants Halici. (Paus. ii. 36. § 1.)
The town was no longer inhabited in the time of Pausanias, and its position is
not fixed by that writer. He only says that, seven stadia from Hermione, the road
from Halice separated from that to Mases, and that the former led between the
mountains Pron and Coccygius, of which the ancient name was Thornax. In the peninsula
of Kranidhi, the French Commission observed the remains of two Hellenic sites,
one on the southern shore, about three miles from Hermione and the same distance
from C. Musadki, the other on the south-western side, at the head of a deep bay
called Kheli or Bizati: the former they suppose to represent Halice, and the latter
Mases, and, accordingly these two places are so placed in Kiepert's map. But Leake,
who is followed by Curtius, observes that the ruins which the French Commission
have named alice are probably some dependency of Hermione of which the name has
not been recorded, since the position is too near to Hermione to have been that
of Halice, and the harbour is too inconvenient for a people who were of considerable
maritime importance. It is far more likely that such a people possessed the port
of Cheli, the situation of which at the mouth of the Argolic gulf agrees exactly
with the description of Scylax. Mases probably stood at the head of the bay of
Kiladhia.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
AMFIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Ampheia (Ampheia: Eth. Ampheus), a town of Messenia, situated on the
frontiers of Laconia, upon a hill well supplied with water. It was surprised and
taken by the Spartans at the beginning of the Messenian war, and was made their
head-quarters in conducting their operations against the Messenians. Its capture
was the first act of open hostilities between the two people. It is placed by
Leake at the Hellenic ruin, now called the Castle of Xuria, and by Boblaye on
the mountain called Kokala. (Paus. iv. 5. § 9; Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 461; Boblaye,
Recherches, p. 109.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
AMFIGENIA (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
Eth. Amphigeneus. One of the towns belonging to Nestor (Horn. Il.
ii. 593), was placed by some ancient critics in Messenia, and by others in Macistia,
a district in Triphylia. Strabo assigns it to Macistia near the river Hypsoeis,
where in his time stood a temple of Leto.
AMILOS (Ancient city) LEVIDI
Amilos: Amilios. A village of Arcadia in the territory of Orchomenus, and on the
road from the latter to Stymphalus.
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