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Termessos is one of the best preserved of the ancient cities in Turkey. The city was founded by the Solymi, who were mentioned by Homer in the Iliad in connection with the legend of Bellerophon. [3] Originally a Pisidian settlement, it integrated into the Greek world after Alexander the Great's conquests.
Andros (Ancient Greek: Ἄνδρος) was the chief city of, and a polis (city-state) [1] on, the island of Andros in the Aegean Sea.The city was named after the island, which, according to tradition, derived its name either from Andreus, a general of Rhadamanthus or from the seer Andrus.
No maps (or manuscripts of his work) exist that are older than the 13th century, but in his Geography he gave detailed instructions and latitude and longitude coordinates for hundreds of locations that are sufficient to re-create the maps. While Ptolemy's system is well-founded, the actual data used are of very variable quality, leading to many ...
Many of the figures are uncertain, especially in ancient times. ... City Location 2500 BC 2300 BC 2000 BC 1800 BC 1600 BC 1360 BC 1200 BC Athens [46] [47] Greece
This region where Alexandria Eschate would be founded was ruled over by Persia starting with Xerxes I, and began to be populated by Greeks starting at that time.When "Greeks" (Greek-related and speaking peoples) in other parts of the Persian empire rebelled or otherwise were troublesome, they would be exiled to the far northeast of the Persian empire, the most distant segment from their homelands.
Aten, properly called The Dazzling Aten [a] though dubbed initially by archaeologists the Rise of Aten, [1] [b] is the remains of an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile [2] in the Theban Necropolis near Luxor. Named after Egyptian sun god Aten, the city appears to
Antinoöpolis (also Antinoopolis, Antinoë, Antinopolis; Ancient Greek: Ἀντινόουπόλις; Coptic: ⲁⲛⲧⲓⲛⲱⲟⲩ Antinow; Arabic: انصنا, romanized: Ansinā, modern Arabic: الشيخ عبادة, modern Sheikh 'Ibada or Sheik Abāda) was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young beloved, Antinoüs, on the ...
Abila (Arabic: ابيلا) was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains of Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea. [ citation needed ] The site is identified with modern Khirbet el-Kafrayn , Jordan and identified on the Madaba Map as an unnamed icon.