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unusual facts about Greek colony



Pioppi

Ancel Keys (1904 - 2004), an American physiologist, lived for 28 years in Pioppi, studying the Mediterranean diet, in a place overlooking the Greek colony of Elea (a locality he named Minnelea, a portmanteau from Minnesota and Elea).

Samian Sibyl

The Samian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle near Hera's temple on the Isle of Samos, a Greek colony.

Savatiano

In addition to Attica, the grape is also found in Euboea and the Bulgarian town of Pomorie which used to be a Greek colony known as Anchialos.


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310 BC

Pytheas, Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marseille) (b. c. 380 BC)

Battle of Pharos

An expedition of 10,000 men in 300 ships sailed out from Zadar and laid siege to the Greek colony Pharos in the island of Hvar, but the Syracusan fleet of Dionysus was alerted and attacked the siege fleet.

The Battle of Pharos was a naval battle between the Greek colony Pharos allied with Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse and the Illyrian Liburnians, which took place in 383/4 BC.The Illyrians of Zadar, the Iadasinoi, became allies of the natives of Hvar and the leaders of an eastern Adriatic coast coalition in the fight against the Greek colonizers.

Boris Farmakovsky

Boris Farmakovsky (1870, Vyatka — July 29, 1928 near Leningrad) was a Russian archaeologist, who began professional excavations of the ancient Greek colony of Olbia in Ukraine.

Empúries

Situated as it was on the coastal commercial route between Massalia (Marseille) and Tartessos in the far south of Hispania, the city developed into a large economic and commercial centre as well as being the largest Greek colony in the Iberian Peninsula.

Grabus

The Taulantii State under Grabus was centered in the Myzeqe plain in present central Albania which bordered the Greek colony of Durrës.

Jack L. Davis

In 1996, plans to begin an intensive archaeological survey in the hinterland of the Greek colony of Apollonia, co-directed with Muzafer Korkuti, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Tirana, were interrupted by the collapse of pyramid banking schemes and the ensuing chaos.

Jebel Akhdar, Libya

The ancient Greek colony of Cyrene was located in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar, with the ruins remaining.