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LADOKIA (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLI
ta Ladokeia. A place in Arcadia, in the district Maenalia, and, after
the building of Megalopolis, a suburb of that city, was situated upon the road
from the latter to Pallantium and Tegea. Here a battle was fought between the
Mantineians and Tegeatae, B.C. 423, and between the Achaeans and Cleomenes, B.C.
226. Thucydides calls it Laodicium (Laodikion) in Oresthis.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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