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A woody area located at the triangle Achaia-Elis-Arcadia, near the sources of the Ladon and Peneius rivers. Xenophon mentions that Akrorios constituted a permanent reason of conflict between the Arcadians and the Elians because of its strategical location.
Acroreia (Akroreia), the mountainous district of Elis on the borders of Arcadia, in which the rivers Peneius and Ladon take their rise. The inhabitants of the district were called Acrocreii (Akroreioi), and their towns appear to have been Thraustus, Alium, Opus, and Eupagium. The name is used in opposition to Koile or Hollow Elis. Stephanus (s. v.), who is followed by many modern writers, makes Acrocreii a town, and places it in Triphylia; but this error appears to have arisen from confounding the Acrocreii with the Paroreatae in Triphylia. (Diod. xiv. 17; Xen. Hell. iii. 2 § 30, vii. 4. § 14; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 203; Boblaye, Recherches, p. 123.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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