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EGILIPS (Ancient city) IONIAN ISLANDS
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).
KROKYLIA (Ancient city) IONIAN ISLANDS
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).
LEFKADA (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
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.
LEFKAS (Ancient city) LEFKADA
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.
NIRIKOS (Ancient city) LEFKADA
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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