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Phlygonium

Southern Europe

Phlygonium, also called Phlygonion, was a city of ancient Phocis in Greece destroyed by Philip II of Macedon at the end of the Third Sacred War in 346 BCE. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder calls it Phlygone and mistakenly places it in Boeotia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Latitude
38.474777 degrees north 1
Longitude
22.740687 degrees east 1
Sources
1. Phlygonium (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude 38.474777, longitude 22.740687
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Phlygonium (Wikipedia)
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    Phlygonium or Phlygonion (Ancient Greek: Φλυγόνιον) was a city of ancient Phocis destroyed by Philip II of Macedon at the end of the Phocian War (346 BCE).
  • In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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