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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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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 »
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Aegina
Aegina, an island off the coast of Greece in the Saronic Gulf about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Athens.
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Alexandria (Arabic: El Iskandariya, Egypt, the nation's second largest city and principal port.
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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.
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Attica, a small, triangular peninsula on the Aegean coast of south-central Greece.
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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.
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Delos (modern Greek: Dhílos), the smallest, but historically one of the most important, of the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea.
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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.
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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.
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Ithaca, , one of the Ionian Islands of Greece. Ithaca is in the Ionian Sea, 30 miles (50 km) west of the mainland.
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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.
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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.
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Miletus , in ancient times a great maritime city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor (now Turkey).
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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.
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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.
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Pergamum (Turkish: Bergama), an ancient city and kingdom in Asia Minor (now Turkey).
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Philippi, an ancient city in Macedonia. It was about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of present-day Kaválla, Greece.
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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.
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Syracuse, (Italian: Siracusa), Italy, a city on the east coast of Sicily and the capital of the province of Syracuse.
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Thebes , a city in ancient Greece, in the district of Boeotia. It was founded at a very early time, and its legendary history was an important part of Greek mythology.
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