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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
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 ...
Thespiae (/ ˈ θ ɛ s p i. iː / THESP-ee-ee; Ancient Greek: Θεσπιαί, romanized: Thespiaí) was an ancient Greek city in Boeotia.It stood on level ground commanded by the low range of hills which run eastward from the foot of Mount Helicon to Thebes, near modern Thespies.
Opus / ˈ oʊ p ə s / (Ancient Greek: Ὀποῦς, romanized: Opoûs or Ὀπόεις [1]) was an ancient Greek city that was the chief city of a tribe of Locri, who were called from this place the Opuntian Locrians, and the territory, the Opuntian Locris. It was located on the coast of mainland Greece opposite Euboea, perhaps at modern Atalanti.
A phrourion (Ancient Greek: φρούριον) was a fortified collection of buildings used as a military garrison and is the equivalent of the Roman castellum (English fortress). The word carries a sense of being a watching entity. A stratopedon (Ancient Greek: στρατόπεδον) was an army camp, equivalent to the Roman castra.
Mesembria (Ancient Greek: Μεσημβρία; Doric Greek: Μεσαμβρία, romanized: Mesambria) was an important Greek city in ancient Thrace. It was situated on the coast of the Euxine and at the foot of Mount Haemus; [1] consequently upon the confines of Moesia, in which it is placed by Ptolemy. [2]