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The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry). Streets are connected by intersection points to form a street grid. Both kinds of items may have textual descriptions and photos attached to them.
Olympia ( Modern Greek: Ολυμπία [oli (m)ˈbi.a]; Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπία [olympí.aː] ), officially Archaia Olympia ( Greek: Αρχαία Ολυμπία lit. 'Ancient Olympia' ), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name. The site was a major ...
A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato's Atlantis. Mount Olympus "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world. Nysa: A beautiful valley full of nymphs. Okeanos: The cosmic river encircling the Earth in Ancient Greek cosmology, also sometimes depicted as one of the Titan gods. Panchaia ...
Greek mythology. Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion 's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities ...
t. e. In Greek mythology, the Greek underworld, or Hades, is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche) is separated from the corpse and transported to the underworld. [1]
Acadine. Acherusia. Adonis Baths. Aeaea. Aeolia (mythical island) Aganippe (naiad) Agelasta. Alalcomenae (Boeotia) Amphilochian Argos.
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). There are also incidental mentions of Troy and its house, Phoenicia, Egypt, and Crete, which hint at a ...
Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.While the southern is flat and marshy, the near approach of the two rivers to one another, at a spot where the undulating plateau of the north sinks suddenly into the Babylonian alluvium, tends to separate them still more ...