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Ponza is also suspected to be the island of Aeaea in Homer's Odyssey, as the island of Circe the sorceress, where her cave or grotto was. Today it is known as Grotta della Maga Circe on the west side of the island, between Capo Bianco and Chiaia di Luna beach. She was said to have lived in this cave in the winter months, spending the summer ...
Aeaea, Ææa or Eëä (/ iː ˈ iː ə / ee-EE-ə or / ə ˈ iː ə / ə-EE-ə; Ancient Greek: Αἰαία, romanized: Aiaíā [ai̯.ǎi̯.aː]) was a mythological island said to be the home of the goddess-sorceress Circe. "Circe would fain have held me back in her halls, the guileful lady of Aeaea, yearning that I should be her husband".
Circeii was an ancient Roman city on the site of modern San Felice Circeo and near Mount Circeo, the mountain promontory on the southwest coast of Italy.The area around Circeii and Mount Circeo was thickly populated with Roman villas and other buildings, of which the remains of many can still be seen.
Mount Circeo is today included in the Circeo National Park, established in 1934 on 5,616 ha (56.16 km 2; 13,880 acres; 21.68 sq mi) over the territories of Latina, Sabaudia, San Felice Circeo and Zannone Island (minor island of Ponziane Archipelago).
The island has its own acknowledged breed of goat (Αίγα Σκοπέλου), [16] named after it. The Skopelos goat is one breed in the southern multicoloured group. It is a relative of the wild goat of the island of Gioura. The main occurrences of this species are in Skopelos, [17] [18] Alonissos and Skiathos. Sheep herds on the island ...
Aubrey Burl's gazetteer lists 1,303 stone circles in Britain, Ireland and Brittany ( France).Most of these are found in Scotland, with 508 sites recorded. There are 343 on the island of Ireland; 316 in England; 81 in Wales; 49 in Brittany (France); and 6 in the Channel Isles.
Greenland (Denmark) - geographically a part of the continent of North America, politically and culturally associated with Europe. Iceland - traverses the border between the North American and the Eurasian continental plates , politically and culturally associated with Europe.
Population figures for Swedish island Södermalm does not include the population of the smaller, nearby islands Reimersholme and Långholmen, neither is the population of Hammarby Sjöstad. Population figures (as of 31 December 2013) of Swedish islands Södermalm and Kungsholmen are calculated from.