Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "TRAMPIA Ancient city IOANNINA".
A city below Metsovon in S Epeiros, reputedly founded by Odysseus (StBiz s.v.). There are remains of a circuit wall ca. 940 m long; and inscriptions and bronzes have been found.
N.G.L. Hammond, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Stephanus B. mentions a town Tymphaea, which is probably the same
place called Trampya (trampua) by others, where Polysperchon, who was a native
of this district, murdered Hercules, the son of Alexander the Great.
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