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VASSILIS (Ancient city) GORTYS
Basilis: Eth. Basilites, a town of Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, on the Alpheius,
said to have been founded by the Arcadian king Cypselus, and containing a temple
of the Eleusinian Demeter. It is identified by Kiepert in his map with the Cypsela
mentioned by Thucydides. There are a few remains of Basilis near Kyparissia.
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
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