Alesiaeum, also called Alesiaion, Aleisium or Alesium, was a town of the district of Pisatis in ancient Elis, in the Peloponnese, situated on the road leading across the mountains from Elis to Olympia. It is named in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad, though its exact archaeological site has never been located. 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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Alesiaeum or Alesiaion (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεσιαῖον), also called Aleisium or Aleision (Ἀλείσιον) by Homer and Alesium or Alesion (Ἀλήσιον) by Stephanus of Byzantium, was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, situated upon the road leading across the mountains from Elis to Olympia.
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