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Drys (Thrace)

Southern Europe

Drys was an ancient Greek town of Thrace, about four kilometers east of Mesembria in what is now Greece. Ancient sources credit the Athenian general Iphicrates with founding or residing in the city, which belonged to the Delian League and appears in an Athenian decree of 422 or 421 BCE. During one conflict a besieged Spartan garrison under Ischolaus is said to have demoralized its Athenian attackers, led by Chabrias, by deliberately tearing down part of its own defensive wall. The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax lists Drys among the neighbors of Maroneia, Dicaea, and Abdera.

Facts
Latitude
40.856489 degrees north 1
Longitude
25.675192 degrees east 1
Climate Zone
Temperate 2
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 3
Sources
1. Drys (Thrace) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude 40.856489, longitude 25.675192
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2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.75, 25.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 40.75, 25.75
40.75 25.75 Csa
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3. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Quote, Zone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 ... # go with EU rules instead, since Greece joined Jan 1. 2:00 EU EE%sT
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Drys (Thrace) (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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