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| Ancient literary sources
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|  EGILIPS (Ancient city) IONIAN ISLANDS |
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And to Leucas also belonged, not only Nericus.. but also the cities which Homer names in the Catalogue (and dwell in Crocyleia and rugged Aegilips).
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| | KROKYLIA (Ancient city) IONIAN ISLANDS |
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And to Leucas also belonged, not only Nericus.. but also the cities which Homer names in the Catalogue (and dwell in Crocyleia and rugged Aegilips).
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| | LEFKADA (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS |
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Acarnania
In early times Leucas was a peninsula of Acarnania, but the poet calls it shore of the mainland, using the term mainland for the country which is situated across from Ithaca and Cephallenia; and this country is Acarnania.
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Leukas
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| | LEFKAS (Ancient city) LEFKADA |
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As for cities, those of the Acarnanians are .. also other cities, Palaerus, Alyzia, Leucas, Argos Amphilochicum, and Ambracia, most of which, or rather all, have become dependencies of Nicopolis.
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| | NIRIKOS (Ancient city) LEFKADA |
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But the Corinthians sent by Cypselus and Gorgus took possession of this shore and also advanced as far as the Ambracian Gulf; and both Ambracia and Anactorium were colonized at this time; and the Corinthians dug a canal through the isthmus of the peninsula and made Leucas an island; and they transferred Nericus to the place which, though once an isthmus, is now a strait spanned by a bridge, and they changed its name to Leucas, which was named, as I think, after Leucatas.
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