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Magoula (Greek: Μαγούλα) is a district of modern Sparta city in Laconia, Greece. It is the former seat of the Mystras municipality. It is basically the evolution of a small village that has been attached to the growing Sparta city. It is an aristocratic area and the centre of the ancient city of Sparta.
Sparta (Greek: Σπάρτη, Spárti) is a city and municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. It lies at the site of ancient Sparta within the Evrotas Valley . The municipality was merged with six nearby municipalities in 2011, for a total population (as of 2021) of 32,786, of whom 17,773 lived in the city.
Ancient Laconophilia started to appear as early as the 5th century BC, and even contributed a new verb to Ancient Greek: λακωνίζειν (literally: to act like a Laconian). Praise of the Spartan city-state persisted within classical literature ever afterward, and surfaced again during the Renaissance.
The new draft opinion is an about-face from an earlier version the Ethics Commission issued about six months ago, which said Castro would run afoul of the ethics code if she benefits financially ...
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Amending the code of ethics in the City Charter has been on Springfield City Council's to-do list for a year. After councilmembers met Wednesday, proposed changes to Section 19.16 of the charter ...
The theater of ancient Sparta with Mt. Taygetus in the background. Thucydides wrote: Suppose the city of Sparta to be deserted, and nothing left but the temples and the ground-plan, distant ages would be very unwilling to believe that the power of the Lacedaemonians was at all equal to their fame.
Rent in New York City began to increase exponentially in the early 1980s [7] and Theater for the New City was forced to find another home in 1984 after its rent increased 300%. [8] With the help of Bess Myerson , Ruth Messinger and David Dinkins , the theater was able to purchase an underutilized 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2 ) former WPA ...