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This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language . Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including: Historic Greek regions, including: Ancient Greece, including colonies and contacted peoples. Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples. Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, including ...
Central Greece: 1987 393; i, ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) Delphi, located at the foot of Mount Parnassus, was the site of the Temple of Apollo, a Panhellenic sanctuary, and in Greek view the "navel of the world" (the Omphalos). Pythia, the oracle, resided in the temple, receiving pilgrims from all Greece. In the 6th century BCE, Delphi was seen ...
Kavala. Chania. Mytilene. Corfu (city) Rhodes (city) Agrinio. Veria. The lowest level of census-designated places in Greece are called oikismoi ( settlements) and are the smallest continuous built-up areas with a toponym designated for the census. Although some urban CDPs form individual cities and towns (labeled in bold) the majority of them ...
Khujand. Alexandria the Furthest, Khüjand, Khodzhent, Khudchand, Chodjend, Ispisar, Leninabad, Leninobod. Alexandria on the Indus. at the confluence of the Indus and Chenab rivers, Pakistan, 13 km from modern Uch. abandoned. Uch, Uch Sharif, Alexandria at the Head of the Punjab. Alexandria on the Oxus.
Anatolia in the Greco-Roman period. The classical regions and their main settlements, including Galatia. Galatia ( / ɡəˈleɪʃə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλατία, Galatía, " Gaul ") was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir, in modern Turkey.
A kome ( Greek: κώμη) was typically a village that was also a political unit. The translation is inexact, but according to Thucydides, Sparta, though it was a polis, resembled four unwalled villages. Similarly, a kome could be a neighbourhood within a larger polis or its own rural settlement. Thucydides mused that the polis had developed ...
Towers in Greece; Name Location Era Image Aigosthena Tower: Aigosthena, Attica: Ancient period: Agia Tower: Naxos: Venetian period: Annunziata Tower: Corfu (city) Venetian period
Pages in category "Ancient Greek cities" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *