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Alyzeia

Southern Europe

Alyzeia was an ancient Greek town on the western coast of Acarnania in northwestern Greece, lying about fifteen stadia inland from a harbor and home to a sanctuary of Heracles, with its remains in the Kandila valley in the present-day municipality of Xiromero. Thucydides is the earliest classical author to mention it, and in 375 BC an Athenian fleet under Timotheus fought a Spartan fleet under Nicolochus nearby, after which the Athenians raised a victory trophy at the city. The Heracles sanctuary once held sculptures by Lysippus depicting the Labours of Heracles, later removed to Rome by a Roman general as the site declined.

Facts
Latitude
38.709287 degrees north 1
Longitude
20.95221 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 4
Sources
1. Alyzeia (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude 38.709287, longitude 20.95221
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2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 38.7093,20.9522
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
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"elevation": 52.0
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3. 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 38.75, 20.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.75, 20.75
38.75 20.75 Csa
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4. GeoNames: Kandíla - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 261150, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.58 km)
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38.70564 20.94749 P PPL GR ESYE23 31 9129 866 55 Europe/Athens
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Wikidata: Alyzeia
Wikidata Q450546, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Alyzeia (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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