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Aegina, an island off the coast of Greece in the Saronic Gulf about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Athens.
Alexandria (Arabic: El Iskandariya, Egypt, the nation's second largest city and principal port.
Antioch, (Turkish: Antakya), an ancient Syrian city, now in southern Turkey. It is on the Orontes River about 18 miles (29 km) from the Mediterranean coast.
Attica, a small, triangular peninsula on the Aegean coast of south-central Greece.
Bithynia, an ancient country of northwestern Asia Minor, now part of Turkey. In early times the region was settled by people from Thrace in the eastern Balkan Peninsula.
Delos (modern Greek: Dhílos), the smallest, but historically one of the most important, of the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea.
Delphi,, an ancient city of central Greece on the south slope of Mount Parnassus.
Dodona, a town of ancient Greece noted for a temple sacred to the god Zeus. The site is near the modern city of Ioánnina in northwestern Greece.
Ephesus, an ancient city on the western coast of Asia Minor. It was situated about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey.
Ithaca, , one of the Ionian Islands of Greece. Ithaca is in the Ionian Sea, 30 miles (50 km) west of the mainland.
Jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian Turnip, a spring-flowering perennial herb of eastern North America.
Knossos, Cnossus , or Gnossus a city of ancient Crete. It is famous in Greek legend as the birthplace of Zeus, chief of the gods, and the home of Minos, Crete's mightiest king.
Miletus , in ancient times a great maritime city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor (now Turkey).
Mycenae a city-kingdom of ancient Greece. It was built on a steep hill six miles (10 km) northeast of Argos on the road from the Gulf of Argolis to the Gulf of Corinth.
Olympia, in ancient Greece, the site of a sanctuary and of the Olympic Games. It lies in the valley of the Alfiós River in the western part of the Peloponnesus.
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