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(Encyclopedia) Iulis, ancient Greece: see Kéa.

(Encyclopedia) Cassandreia, ancient Greece: see Potidaea. ...

(Encyclopedia) Therma, ancient Greece: see Thessaloníki. ...

(Encyclopedia) Helike, city, ancient Greece: see Helice. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dorians, people of ancient Greece. Their name was mythologically derived from Dorus, son of Hellen. Originating in the northwestern mountainous region of Epirus and SW Macedonia, they migrated through...

(Encyclopedia) Canopus kənōˈpəs [key], ancient city of N Egypt, 12 mi (19 km) E of Alexandria. Canopus, the pilot of Menelaus' ship, was said to have died there. In Hellenistic times Canopus was known as a pleas...

(Encyclopedia) Acarnania ăkˌərnāˈnēə [key], region of ancient Greece, between the Achelous River and the Ionian Sea. The chief city was Stratos. The Acarnanians sided with Athens during the Peloponnesian War,...

(Encyclopedia) Argolis ärˈgəlĭs [key], region of ancient Greece in the NE Peloponnesus. It was roughly identical with the Argive plain and was the area dominated by the city of Argos. ...

(Encyclopedia) Albany, ancient and literary name of Scotland, N of the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde. Variants are Alban and Albin.

(Encyclopedia) Greek music, the music of the ancient and modern inhabitants of Greece. Dormant for nearly two thousand years, Greek music underwent a musical rebirth in the 19th cent. with the works of the opera c...