Olympus or Olympos ( grc, Ὄλυμπος, link=no) may refer to:
Mountains
In antiquity
Greece
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Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus (; el, Όλυμπος, Ólympos, also , ) is the highest mountain in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, be ...
in Thessaly, northern Greece, the home of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greek mythology
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Mount Olympus (Lesvos), located in Lesbos
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Mount Olympus (Euboea), located in Euboea
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Mount Olympus (Attica)
Laureotic Olympus (named for the region of Laurium, also Όλυμπος Αττικής "Attic Olympus", Σκόρδι) is a hill in Attica, just north of Anavyssos, in Saronikos municipality, East Attica, Greece.
At a height of 487 m is on ...
, located in East Attica
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Mount Olympus (Skyros), located in
Skyros
Skyros ( el, Σκύρος, ), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros ( grc, Σκῦρος, ), is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the ...
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Mount Lykaion
Mount Lykaion ( grc, Λύκαιον ὄρος, ''Lýkaion Óros''; la, Mons Lycaeus) is a mountain in Arcadia, Greece. Lykaion has two peaks: ''Stefani'' to the north and St. Ilias (, ''Agios Īlías'') to the south where the altar of Zeus is lo ...
, located in Arcadia
Turkey
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Mysian Olympus
Mysians ( la, Mysi; grc, Μυσοί, ''Mysoí'') were the inhabitants of Mysia, a region in northwestern Asia Minor.
Origins according to ancient authors
Their first mention is by Homer, in his list of Troy, Trojans allies in the Iliad, and ac ...
(present-day Uludağ), in northwest Turkey
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Paphlagonia
Paphlagonia (; el, Παφλαγονία, Paphlagonía, modern translit. ''Paflagonía''; tr, Paflagonya) was an ancient region on the Black Sea coast of north-central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia to the west and Pontus (region), Pontus t ...
n Olympus (present-day Arıt Dağı near Bartın)
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Mount Nif
Mount Nif, tr, Nif Dağı, (elevation: ) is a mountain in the district of Kemalpaşa, towering over the district center (''formerly also called Nif''), located immediately to the east of the city of İzmir, in western Turkey. It was one of th ...
(present-day Nif Dağı in Aegean Turkey)
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Lycian Olympus
Lycian may refer to:
* Lycia, a geopolitical region in Anatolia (now Turkey);
* Lycian Apollo, a type of ancient Greek statuary;
* Lycian Way, a hiking trail in southwestern Turkey;
* Lycian Way Ultramarathon, an annual ultra-marathon in Lycian ...
(present-day Tahtalı Dağı near Kemer)
Cyprus
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Mount Olympus (Cyprus)
Olympus, or Chionistra, ( el, Όλυμπος ''or'' Χιονίστρα; tr, Olimpos Tepesi) at , is the highest point in Cyprus. It is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. Mount Olympus peak and the "Troodos Square" fall under the territ ...
, the highest point (1952 m) on the island of Cyprus
In modern times
United States
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Mount Olympus (Washington), on the Olympic Peninsula
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Mount Olympus (Utah)
Mount Olympus in the U.S. state of Utah is one of the most prominent and recognizable mountains viewable from practically every location in the Salt Lake Valley. Mount Olympus is not the tallest peak along the Wasatch Front, but its unusual for ...
, on the Wasatch Front
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Mount Olympus (San Francisco)
Mount Olympus is a hill located on Upper Terrace in the Ashbury Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. It was once considered to mark the geographical center of the city, and was topped off by a statue given by Adolph Sutro
Adolph Heinrich J ...
, in the Ashbury Heights neighborhood
New Zealand
* Mount Olympus, the 2,096-meter mountain range, which contains
Mount Olympus Ski Area
Mount Olympus Ski Area, dubbed "playground of the gods", is a club skifield in Craigieburn Range, on New Zealand's South Island. Near the town of Windwhistle, and in the vicinity of other club fields such as Mount Cheeseman and Broken River, it i ...
, located in the South Island of New Zealand
Solar System
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Olympus Mons (Mars), the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System
Communities
Greece
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Olympos, Karpathos
Olympos ( el, Όλυμπος) is a village and a former self-governing community on the island of Karpathos, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Karpathos, of which it is a municipal unit ...
, a town on the island of Karpathos
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Dio-Olympos
Dion-Olympos ( el, Δίον-Όλυμπος, ''Díon-Ólympos'') is a municipality in the Pieria regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Litochoro. The municipality has an area of 495.314 km2.
Municipal ...
, Pieria, a municipal unit in the foothills of the mythic Mount Olympus
Turkey
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Olympos (Lycia)
Olympus or Olympos ( grc, Ὄλυμπος, ''Ólympos''; la, Olympus) was a city in ancient Lycia. It was situated in a river valley near the coast. Its ruins are located south of the modern town Çıralı in the Kumluca district of Antalya Pro ...
, village in the heart of the Olympos coastal national park
United States
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Mount Olympus, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills, California
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Mount Olympus, Indiana
Mount Olympus is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Gibson County, Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its ca ...
, an unincorporated place
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Mount Olympus, Utah
Mount Olympus or Olympus Cove is a neighborhood in Millcreek, Utah built on the northwestern slopes of Mount Olympus of the Wasatch Range. It was formerly a census-designated place (CDP), but was consolidated into the Millcreek CDP for census purp ...
, a census-designated place
Business
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Olympus Corporation, a Japanese medical and scientific solution company, that previously produced optics and imaging
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OM Digital Solutions
OM Digital Solutions Corporation (OMDS) (OMデジタルソリューションズ) is a Japanese manufacturer of opto- digital products for business and consumer use. The company acquired the cameras, audio recorders and binoculars product division ...
, formed when
Olympus Corporation split off its photography and audio recording businesses
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Olympus tension leg platform Olympus is a tension leg platform oil rig, planned as a further development of the Mars field (hence "Mars B").
Design
Olympus is a Tension Leg Platform, with 24 wells; added to Mars A, this means a combined 48 wells and more than per day of oil e ...
, an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico
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Rolls-Royce Olympus
The Rolls-Royce Olympus (originally the Bristol B.E.10 Olympus) was the world's second two- spool axial-flow turbojet aircraft engine design, first run in May 1950 and preceded only by the Pratt & Whitney J57, first-run in January 1950. It is ...
, a jet engine and marine turbine
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Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
* Olympus, a codename for the third version of phpBB,
phpBB3
Entertainment
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''Olympos'' (novel), a science fiction novel by American author Dan Simmons
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Olympus Rally
The Olympus Rally is an event in the motorsport of rallying. While it has usually been run as a national rally, in 1986–1988, it was a round in the FIA World Rally Championship, the most recent time a WRC rally has been run in the United State ...
, a motorsport event in the Washington State, USA
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Olympus (Marvel Comics)
The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features.
Places
Certain places fe ...
, a fictional location in Marvel Comics
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''Olympus'' (TV series), a 2015 Canadian fantasy television series
* Mount Olympus, a major location in the 1997 Disney animated film
Hercules
Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
The Romans adapted the ...
Other
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Olympus (musician)
Olympus (or Olympos, el, Ὄλυμπος) is the name of two ancient Greek musicians, one mythical who lived before the Trojan War, and one apparently real, who lived in the 7th century BC. Both musicians were connected with the auletic music, wh ...
, two semi-mythical musicians from the time of Ancient Greece
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''Olympus'' (sculpture), a public artwork by Charles Ginnever in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
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Olympus High School
Olympus High School is a public high school in the Granite School District in Holladay, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
Description
The school opened on September 1, 1953, with an original enrollment of 1028 students. In the fall of 1960, ...
, a high school in Utah, USA
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USS ''Mount Olympus'' (AGC-8), a World War II US Navy ship
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Olympus-1, damaged and decommissioned communications satellite
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Optare Olympus
The Optare Olympus (introduced in 2006 as the East Lancs Olympus, and sold as the Darwen Olympus between 2007 and 2008) is a double-decker bus built by Optare. It could be built as a body available on Alexander Dennis Enviro400, Volvo B9TL or ...
, a British double-decker bus
* ''Olympus'', a
New Zealand company sailing ship the brought 159 settlers to Wellington, New Zealand, in 1840
* ''Olympus'', an alternate name for Bigelow Aerospace's
BA 2100
The BA 2100, or ''Olympus'', is a conceptual inflatable space habitat by Bigelow Aerospace. The larger BA 2100 would extend the volume and capabilities of the B330 module, which is under development as part of the Bigelow Commercial Space Sta ...
spacecraft
* FC Olimp Ungheni, the name of the Moldovan football club
CS Moldova-03 Ungheni during 2008-2011
See also
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Olympe (disambiguation) Olympe is an ancient Greek city in the region of Epirus. Its location is probably at modern Mavrovë.
Olympe may also refer to:
*Olympe (singer), French singer famous after coming runner-up in season 2 of French '' The Voice: la plus belle voix''
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Olympia (disambiguation)
The name Olympia may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Olympia'' (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games
* ''Olympia'' (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlet ...
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