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unusual facts about The Ancient City



Timoleon Filimon

He published a book titled The Mayor (Ο Δήμαρχος O Dimarhos) while his translation of the book The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges was published posthumously (edited by Spyridon Lambrou).


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15497 Lucca

The ancient city of Lucca, on the banks of the river Serchio, is the capital of Tuscany.

AC Sparta Prague

The name Sparta was inspired by the fighting spirit and courage of the people from the ancient city of Sparta.

Acanthodactylus harranensis

It is native to Turkey, and is known only from the ruins of the ancient city of Harran.

Aigio

In 2000, the ancient city of Helike (sometimes called "The Lost Atlantis") was discovered: it had been buried by an earthquake and tsunami in 373 B.C. Archeologists are excavating the site.

Al-Shibani Church

The building has many exhibition halls, being used for several purposes, such as the "Old Aleppo Reviaval Hall" which is proposed to commemorate the ancient city of Aleppo through a number of pictures and figures of old Aleppine districts, suqs, mosques and khans, as well as a pattern of the Citadel of Aleppo and the surrounding old quarters.

Alcúdia

There are remains of a Roman town just outside the medieval town walls, in front of the Church of St. Jaume, belonging to the ancient city of Pollentia (see also the Italian Pollentia).

Alfred von Domaszewski

With philologist Rudolf Ernst Brünnow (1858-1917) he provided a comprehensive analysis and map of the ancient city of Petra.

Apprieu

Apprieu, from the Latin Apprius - an anagram of "Priapus", the ancient god of fertility associated with the ancient city of Lampsacus near Troy.

Badra, Iraq

Badra is located next to the site of the ancient city Der.

Battle of Jaxartes

Kazakhstan – just south west of the ancient city of Tashkent (the modern capital of Uzbekistan) and north east Khujand (a city in Tajikistan).

Boğaziçi

Boğaziçi, Milas, a fishing village on the shore of Lake Tuzla, and site of the ancient city of Bargylia

Burnaburiash I

He was also father of Ulam-Buriyåš, as commemorated on an onyx weight, in the shape of a frog, with a cuneiform inscription, “1 shekel, Ulam Buriaš, son of Burna Buriaš,” which was found in a large burial, during excavations of the site of the ancient city of Metsamor.

Carl Watzinger

Carl Watzinger (1877–1948) was a German-born archaeologist that was part of a team that worked on uncovering the site of the ancient city of Jericho from 1907 to 1908 and Capernaum.

David Moore Robinson

David Moore Robinson (September 21, 1880, in Auburn, New York – January 2, 1958, in Oxford, Mississippi) was an American classical archaeologist credited with the discovery of the ancient city of Olynthus.

Delphi, Indiana

Delphi, Indiana, takes its name from the ancient city of Delphi in Greece.

Duchy of Athens

Of Burgundian origin, the dukes of the petty lordly family from La Roche renewed the ancient city of Plato and Aristotle as a courtly European capital of chivalry.

Dvin

Saladin was born in Tikrit, Iraq, but his family had originated from the ancient city of Dvin.

Erdene Zuu Monastery

Located in Övörkhangai Province, approximately 2 km north-east from the center of Kharkhorin and adjacent to the ancient city of Karakorum, it is part of the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site.

Götaland theory

The Götaland theory originated in the early 20th century with claims that the ancient city Ubsola (Uppsala) was situated in the province of Västergötland in the old lands called Uplanden.

Guardians of Time Trilogy

The story is set in Angel Falls (fictional, not the real Angel Falls) which is directly above the ancient city of Veridian.

Harappa

The ancient city of Harappa was heavily damaged under the British rule, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.

Hebenu

The modern village of Kom el Ahmar (Minya Governorate) is built on the site where the ancient city stood.

Henchir Kssiba

The exact name of the ancient city remained unknown until 1917 where the finding of an official inscription commemorating the building of a temple to Saturn, helped prove that this city was the "Civitas Popthensis".

Jisr al-Shughur

Little remains of the ancient city other than portions of the much-repaired Roman bridge, which is now incorporated into a 15th–century Mameluke construction that still serves as one of the city's two bridges over the river.

Kalyves

In classical and Byzantine times, Kalives is the likely site of Kissamos, one of the ancient city of Aptera's two harbours.

Kamsabhoga

Kamsa-desa (Li-yul) was the ancient city/country in Central Asia lying beyond the Karakorum range.

Kasur

Hindu mythology instead opines that the ancient city was founded 7,100 years ago, a claim unsupported by any archeological evidence, by Kusha, son of the Hindu god Rama.

Lappa, Rethymno

The municipality's name was a revival of the name of the ancient city of Lappa, now the village of Argyroupoli.

Le Grand-Lemps

The name "Le Grand-Lemps" was derived from the Latin 'Lampsacus', which was an ancient Greek city near the ancient city of Troy.

Liutprand, King of the Lombards

Having just overwhelmed the Byzantine forces, though it was left to his heirs to make the final vestige of the Exarchate of Ravenna Lombard at last, Liutprand advanced towards Rome along the Via Cassia; he was met at the ancient city of Sutri by Pope Gregory II (728).

Mark Lehner

His international team currently runs the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, excavating and mapping the ancient city of the builders of the Giza pyramid complex, which dates to the fourth dynasty of Egypt.

Meir Har-Zion

At the age of 18, Meir and his girlfriend managed to reach Petra at night, after three days of hiking, and crossing the Wadi Musa and climbing Mount Hor and bypassing an unpassable waterfall: they apparently slipped into the ancient city unnoticed, under the cover of darkness, before exploring the Nabatean palaces.

Patriarchate of Aquileia

The Patriarchate of Aquileia was an early center of Christianity, an historical state and Catholic episcopal see, and today a Catholic titular see in northeastern Italy, centred on the ancient city of Aquileia situated at the head of the Adriatic, on what is now the Italian seacoast, at the confluence of the Anse and the Torre.

Peter Connolly

Connolly, Peter and Hazel Dodge (1998), The Ancient City, Life in Classical Athens & Rome, Oxford University Press.

Philippi

The present municipality Filippoi is located near the ruins of the ancient city and it is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Greece.

Pierre Montet

After his death, Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak discovered that although Montet had discovered Pi-Ramesses stonework at Tanis, the true location of the ancient city lay some 30 km to the south.

Polemonium

:This article is about the plant species, for the ancient city named Polemonium, see Fatsa.

Porto Cheli

The ancient city of Halieis (also Alici of Aliki), excavated by Michael H. Jameson, is situated in the southern end of the Argolic Peninsula.

Selimiye, Milas

In the vicinity are the ruins of the ancient city of Euromus.

The Three Marys

What may be the earliest known representation of three women visiting the tomb of Jesus is a fairly large fresco in the Dura-Europos church in the ancient city of Dura Europos on the Euphrates.

Thomondgate

In times past the district was located at an important portal from the west of Ireland and the then Kingdom of Thomond (now County Clare) into the ancient City of Limerick, which was then confined to the Englishtown area of the city.

Tithorea

The ancient city was built after the destruction of the nearby cities by Xerxes' Persian army in 480 BC.

Tlemcen National Park

The park includes the forests of Ifri, Zariffet, and Aïn Fezza, the waterfalls and cliffs of El Awrit, and many archeological sites and the ruins of Mansoura, the ancient city on whose ruins Tlemcen was built, as well the Mosque of Sidi Boumediene, the patron saint of Tlemcen.

Turkcell

Since 1999, Turkcell has supported the restoration of the ancient city walls in Bodrum.

Ulamburiash

Confirmation of his provenance comes from an onyx weight, in the shape of a frog, with a cuneiform inscription, “1 shekel, Ulam Buriaš, son of Burna Buriaš”, which was found in a large burial, during excavations of the site of the ancient city of Metsamor.

Volubilis

From 2000 excavations carried out by University College London and the Moroccan Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine under the direction of Elizabeth Fentress, Gaetano Palumbo and Hassan Limane revealed what should probably be interpreted as the headquarters of Idris I just below the walls of the Roman town to the west of the ancient city centre.

Wandesford House

Hargrove, William History and description of the ancient city of York.

Yanzhou Village

The ancient city was the scene a major battle between the Tang dynasty Chinese emperor Taizong and the Goguryeo in 645 AD.