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Imagining a distant time is much easier if you know a bit about the landscape. Explore Ancient Greek Cities and Sites in these articles to get a better picture of this ancient world.
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ANCIENT GREEK CITIES & SITES LIBRARY

Aegina

Aegina, an island off the coast of Greece in the Saronic Gulf about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Athens.

Alexandria

Alexandria (Arabic: El Iskandariya, Egypt, the nation's second largest city and principal port.

Antioch

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

Attica, a small, triangular peninsula on the Aegean coast of south-central Greece.

Bithynia

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

Delos (modern Greek: Dhílos), the smallest, but historically one of the most important, of the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea.

Delphi

Delphi,, an ancient city of central Greece on the south slope of Mount Parnassus.

Dodona

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

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

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

Jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian Turnip, a spring-flowering perennial herb of eastern North America.

Knossos

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

Miletus , in ancient times a great maritime city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor (now Turkey).

Mycenae

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

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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