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This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including: Greek mythology; Greek Jews, including Romaniotes and exiled Sephardim; Greco-Buddhism; Christianity until the Great Schism, and afterwards the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Rite, etc. Greek Muslims, and those outside Greece who are Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek
Monaco, a modern city-state on the south coast of France. Monaco bears no resemblance to any aspect of an ancient Greek polis. In modern historiography of the ancient world πόλις is often transliterated to polis without any attempt to translate it into the language of the historiographer.
Greek city-states (17 C, 164 P) Greek colonies (4 C, 3 P) A. ... Pages in category "Ancient Greek cities" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
Ancient Greek cities (5 C, 47 P) Cities in ancient Attica (1 C, 17 P) B. ... Macalla (ancient city) Macareae; Malloea; Manika, Greece; Meliboea (Magnesia) Melitaea ...
Map showing ancient Thessaly. Pherae is shown to the east centre. The Hyperian Fountain at Pherae, with Ottoman mosques, Edward Dodwell. Pherae (Greek: Φεραί) was a city and polis (city-state) [1] in southeastern Ancient Thessaly. [2] One of the oldest Thessalian cities, it was located in the southeast corner of Pelasgiotis. [3]
A cleruchy (Ancient Greek: κληρουχία) was a colony, typically Athenian, which despite being in a different location from the mother city, did not achieve independence. Instead, it remained part of the mother city's polis, with citizenship being retained by the settlers, and it may have functioned like a kome.
Phlius (/ ˈ f l aɪ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φλιοῦς) or Phleius (Φλειοῦς) was an independent polis (city-state) in the northeastern part of Peloponnesus. Phlius' territory, called Phliasia (Φλιασία), was bounded on the north by Sicyonia, on the west by Arcadia, on the east by Cleonae, and on the south by Argolis.