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Ithaca (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named after the Greek island of Ithaca. [3]
Ithaca is a town in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The town's population was 22,283 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] The town is in the central part of the county, in the Finger Lakes – Southern Tier region of New York, and is part of the Ithaca Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Modern Ithaca can be seen to the west (in turquoise) Ulysses meets his father Laertes on Ithaca (Theodoor van Thulden, 1600) Ithaca (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /; Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithakē) was, in Greek mythology, the island home of the hero Odysseus. The specific location of the island, as it was described in Homer's Odyssey, is a matter for debate ...
Ithaca, Ithaka or Ithica may also refer to: Places. Australia. Ithaca, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Brisbane Ithaca Division, a former local government area;
Map of Homeric Greece based on the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad (right-click on map to enlarge). The locations mentioned in the narratives of Odysseus's adventures have long been debated. Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca and its neighbours).
Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 105,740. [1] The county seat is Ithaca. [2] The name is in honor of Daniel D. Tompkins, who served as Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States.
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Ithaca's main island has an area of 96 square kilometres (37 sq mi) and in 2021 had a population of 2,862. It is the second-smallest of the seven main Ionian Islands, after Paxi. Ithaca is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. The capital is Vathy (or Vathi). [1] [2]