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Arne (Thessaly)
Arne () was the chief city of the Aeolians, Aeolian Boeotians in ancient Thessaly, which was said to have derived its name from the mythological Arne (mythology), Arne, a daughter of Aeolus (son of Hellen), Aeolus. The town was said to have been founded three generations before the Trojan War. According to Thucydides the Aeolian Boeotians were expelled from Arne by the Thessalians sixty years after the Trojan war, and settled in the country called ancient Boeotia, Boeotia after them; but other writers, inverting the order of events, represent the Thessalian Arne as founded by Boeotians, who had been expelled from their country by the Pelasgians. Stephanus of Byzantium wrote that later Cierium occupied the site of Arne, which was accepted at least by William Smith (lexicographer), William Smith, writing in the 19th century, and by the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World; others place Arne at a site nearby, but not at, Cierium. If Arne is Cierium, it is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeolians
The Aeolians (; , ''Aioleis'') were one of the four major tribes into which Greeks divided themselves in the ancient period (along with the Achaeans, Dorians and Ionians).. They originated in the eastern parts of the Greek mainland, notably in Thessaly and Boeotia. By BC, the Aeolians began their early settlements on the west coast of Anatolia, known as Aeolis, comprising the territory between Troas and Ionia, as well as on the Aegean islands of Lesbos and Tenedos. A second round of Aeolian settlements took place during the 7th century. They spoke Aeolic, a dialect of Ancient Greek most famously known for its use by poets like Sappho and Alcaeus from Lesbos, and Corinna from Boeotia. History The name derives from Aeolus, the mythical ancestor of the Aeolians and son of Hellen, himself the mythical patriarch of the Greek nation. The name ''Aeolian'' () derives from the Greek name ''Aeolus'', ''aiolos'' (αίολος) literally meaning "changeable", "quickly moving". They s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smith (lexicographer)
Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer. He became known for his advances in the teaching of Greek and Latin in schools. Early life Smith was born in Municipal Borough of Enfield, Enfield in 1813 to Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformist parents. He attended the Madras House school of John Allen (religious writer), John Allen in Hackney. Originally destined for a theological career, he instead became Articled clerk, articled to a solicitor. Meanwhile, he taught himself classics in his spare time, and when he entered University College London carried off both the Greek and Latin prizes. He was entered at Gray's Inn in 1830, but gave up his legal studies for a post at University College School and began to write on classical subjects. Lexicography Smith next turned his attention to lexicography. His first attempt was ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'', which appeared in 1842, the greater part being written by him. Then f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Ancient Thessaly
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magoula Makria
Magoula () is a district of modern Sparta city in Laconia, Greece. It is the former seat of the Mystras municipality. It is basically the evolution of a small village that has been attached to the growing Sparta city. It is an aristocratic area and the centre of the ancient city of Sparta. Overview It is said that it was named after the word 'magus' (μάγος) which describes something magical and extremely beautiful. It is a wealthy, chic district and a prestigious place to live. Many similarities to Kifissia and Drafi can be found. Sainopouleio is located in Magoula, which is a famous open theatre where important festivals (ancient plays) are taking place. Sainopouleio was described by Manos Hadjidakis Manos may refer to: Films * The Hands (film), ''The Hands'' (film) (Spanish: ''Las manos''), a 2006 Argentinean-Italian film * ''Manos: The Hands of Fate'', 1966 horror film Other uses * Manos (album), ''Manos'' (album), by The Spinanes * Manos (n ... as the most beautiful t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thessaly
Thessaly ( ; ; ancient Aeolic Greek#Thessalian, Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic regions of Greece, geographic and modern administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient Thessaly, ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia (, ), and appears thus in Homer's ''Odyssey''. Thessaly Convention of Constantinople (1881), became part of the modern Greek state in 1881, after four and a half centuries of Ottoman Greece, Ottoman rule. Since 1987 it has formed one of the country's 13 Modern regions of Greece, regions and is further (since the Kallikratis reform of 2011) sub-divided into five regional units of Greece, regional units and 25 municipalities of Greece, municipalities. The capital of the region is Larissa. Thessaly lies in northern central Greece and borders the regions of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia to the north, Epirus (region), Epirus to the west, Central Greece (geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karditsa (regional Unit)
Karditsa (, ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Thessaly. Its name is derived from its capital Karditsa, a town of approximately 56,000 people. Administration The regional unit Karditsa is subdivided into 6 municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox): * Argithea (2) * Karditsa (1) * Lake Plastiras (''Limni Plastiras'', 3) * Mouzaki (4) * Palamas (5) * Sofades (6) Prefecture Karditsa was created as a prefecture () in 1899, and again in 1947. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Karditsa was created out of the former prefecture Karditsa. The prefecture had the same territory as the present regional unit. At the same time, the municipalities were reorganised, according to the table below. History Encompassing the ancient geographical region of Thessaliotis, one of the four ancient districts of Thessaly, the present day Karditsa regional unit was in the Kingdom of Macedonia and later t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofades
Sofades () is a town and municipality in Thessaly, central Greece belonging to the regional unit of Karditsa. Its 2011 census population was 6,056 people and 18,864 for the municipality, including a large Romani community. Its elevation is around 120 m above sea level, and the economy is mainly agricultural (cotton, corn). Sofades is located south of Palamas, southwest of Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, northwest of Lamia and southeast of Karditsa and Trikala. The native Greek inhabitants of the region are commonly known as Karagounides (Καραγκούνηδες). History The modern town is very close to the site of the ancient city of Kierion () or Cierium, one of the most important cities of ancient Thessaly. The name "Sofades" was first recorded as "Sofou" (Σοφού) around 1454 AD. In the early 1800s the English traveler William Martin Leake described the town as an administrative center consisting of around 150 houses and belonging to Abdim Bey of Larissa, but payi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arni, Karditsa
Arni () is a former municipality in the Karditsa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sofades Sofades () is a town and municipality in Thessaly, central Greece belonging to the regional unit of Karditsa. Its 2011 census population was 6,056 people and 18,864 for the municipality, including a large Romani community. Its elevation is around ..., of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 89.185 km2. Population 2,140 (2021). The seat of the municipality was in Mataragka. It was named after the ancient Aeolian town of "Arne" (), which was located near present Mataragka. References Populated places in Karditsa (regional unit) Sofades {{Thessaly-geo-stub el:Δήμος Σοφάδων#Άρνης ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrgos Kieriou, Karditsa
Pyrgos or Pyrgus (, 'tower') may refer to: Places Greece * Chalastra, a village in Thessaloniki regional unit * Myrtos Pyrgos, Minoan archaeological site near Myrtos, Crete * Priniatikos Pyrgos, an archaeological site near Istron, in eastern Crete * Pyrgos Dirou, a village in Laconia, municipality of Oitylo, Laconia * Pyrgos Kallistis, a village in the island of Santorini * Pyrgos, Tinos, a village in the island of Tinos * Pyrgos, Boeotia, a village north of Orchomenos in Boeotia, believed by some to be the site of classical Tegyra * Pyrgos, Corinthia, a mountain village in the municipality of Evrostini, Corinthia * Pyrgos, Elis, capital city of Elis *, a village in the municipal unit of Asterousia, Heraklion, Crete * Pyrgus (Elis), a town of ancient Elis * Pyrgus (Triphylia), a town of ancient Triphylia, in Elis Elsewhere *''Pyrgos'', Greek name for the city of Burgas, Bulgaria * Pyrgos, Cyprus, a town on Morphou Bay * Pyrgos, Limassol, village near Limassol, Cyprus *''Py ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lund University
Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old ''studium generale'' next to Lund Cathedral. Lund University has nine Faculty (division), faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with around 47,000 students in 241 different programmes and 1,450 freestanding courses. The university has 560 partner universities in approximately 70 countries. It belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network. Among those associated with the university are five Nobel Prize winners, a Fields Medal winner, prime ministers and business leaders. Two major facilities for materials research have been recent strategic priorities in Lund: MAX IV, a synchrotron radiation laboratory – in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrington Atlas Of The Greek And Roman World
The ''Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World'' is a large-format English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard Talbert, Richard J. A. Talbert. The time period depicted is roughly from Archaic Greece, archaic Greek civilization (pre-550 BC) through Late Antiquity (640 AD). The atlas was published by Princeton University Press in 2000. The book was the winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers PROSE Awards, Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities. Overview The main (atlas) volume contains 102 color topographic maps, covering territory from the British Isles and the Azores and eastward to Afghanistan and western China. The size of the volume is 33 x 48 cm. A 45-page gazetteer is also included in the atlas volume. The atlas is accompanied by a map-by-map directory on CD-ROM, in Portable Document Format, PDF format, including a search index. The map-by-map directory is also availab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cierium
Cierium or Kierion () was a town and polis (city-state) in the district of Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly, which according to some ancient commentators, such as Stephanus of Byzantium was the successor to the Homer, Homeric Arne (Thessaly), Arne, the chief town of the Aeolian Boeotians in Thessaly, from which they emigrated to ancient Boeotia, Boeotia. History According to Thucydides, the Boeotians had occupied the territory of Boeotia when, sixty years after the Trojan War, they had been expelled from the city of Arne by the Thessalians. Archemachus of Euboea and other authors add that only a few Boeotians decided to stay in Arne and remain as servants of the Thessalians and were called ''penestai, penestae.'' Stephanus of Byzantium identified this Arne located in Thessaly with the city of Cierium, which was accepted by William Smith (lexicographer), William Smith, writing in the 19th century, and by some current researchers, others place Arne at Magoula Makria. a site nearby, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
