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PYRGOS (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
Purgos, Purgoi, Eth. Purgites. The most southerly town of Triphylia
in Elis, at the mouth of the river Neda, upon the Messenian frontier (Strab. viii.
p. 348), and hence described by Stephanus B. as a Messenian town. It was one of
the settlements of the Minyae. (Herod. iv. 148.) It opened its gates to Philip
in the Social War. (Polyb. iv. 77, 80.) Leake places Pyrgi at some ancient remains
upon the right bank of the Neda, not far from its mouth. (Morea, vol. i. p. 57,
vol. ii. p. 207.)
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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