Marathon the site of a decisive battle of the Persian Wars in 490 B.C. Here, on a plain about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Athens, Greece, the Athenians defeated a Persian army and forced Darius the Great, the Persian emperor, to abandon his invasion of Greece.
Alexandria (Arabic: El Iskandariya, Egypt, the nation's second largest city and principal port. See more »
Delphi,, an ancient city of central Greece on the south slope of Mount Parnassus. See more »
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. See more »
Marathon the site of a decisive battle of the Persian Wars in 490 B.C. Here, on a plain about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Athens, Greece, the Athenians defeated a Persian army and forced Darius the Great, the Persian emperor, to abandon his invasion of Greece. See more »
Olympia, in ancient Greece, the site of a sanctuary and of the Olympic Games. It lies in the valley of the Alfios River in the western part of the Peloponnesus. See more »
Sparta, a city-state of ancient Greece. Sparta, also called Lacedaemon, was the capital of Laconia, in southeastern Peloponnesus, and rivaled Athens as the most powerful city-state in Greece. See more »
Troy (Greek: Ilion; Latin: Ilium), an ancient city of Asia Minor. It stood on the site of the hill now named Hissarlik in northwestern Turkey, about four miles (6 km) from the place where the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea meet. See more »
Aegina, an island off the coast of Greece in the Saronic Gulf about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Athens. See more »
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. See more »
Attica, a small, triangular peninsula on the Aegean coast of south-central Greece. See more »
