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Greenfield is a fictional city created in the sandbox video game Minecraft. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks. [2] The city was started by Minecraft user THEJESTR in August 2011. [3] [4] As of April 2022, there are approximately 1.3 million downloads of the city map. [5]
The city still lends its name to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, one of the most important modern churches of the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean. The city also attracts Muslim pilgrims who visit the Habib-i Najjar Mosque, which they believe to contain the tomb of Habib the Carpenter, mentioned in the Surah Yā-Sīn of the Quran.
The city plan was a perfect circle of 1,950 m diameter, divided into twenty sectors. The plan also featured a circular city center, with a tower at its very center. [4] Veh-Ardashir: 3rd century The circular wall is uncovered. [5] Harran: Sasanian period [1] Gay / Jay (Isfahan's twin city) [6] Isfahan: The round city of Isfahan is not uncovered ...
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Cape Sideros or Cape Sidero (Greek: Άκρα Σίδερος, romanized: Akra Sideros) is a cape at the eastern end of the island of Crete, Greece.Anciently it was known as Samonium or Samonion (Ancient Greek: Σαμώνιον), Sammonium or Sammonion (Ancient Greek: Σαμμώνιον), [1] Salmonium or Salmonion (Σαλμώνιον) [2] and Salmone (Σαλμώνη). [3]
Phocaea or Phokaia (Ancient Greek: Φώκαια, Phókaia; modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia [1] (modern-day Marseille, in France) in 600 BC, Emporion (modern-day Empúries, in Catalonia, Spain) in 575 BC and Elea (modern-day Velia, in Campania, Italy) in 540 BC.
The contemporary city, much of which was moved during the mid-20th century to preserve the site of the ancient capital, is a major road junction of northern Sri Lanka and lies along a railway line. The city is the headquarters of Sri Lanka's archeological survey, and tourism is a significant factor in its economy.
Aegae or Aigai (Ancient Greek: Αἰγαί) was the original capital of Macedon, an ancient kingdom in Emathia in northern Greece. The site is located on the foothills of the Pierian Mountains, between the modern towns of Vergina and Palatitsia, [1] [2] and overlooks the Central Macedonian Plain.