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Elaeus

Western Asia

Elaeus, meaning the Olive City, was an ancient Greek city in Thrace on the Thracian Chersonese, at the southern end of the Hellespont near the peninsula southernmost point, in what is now Turkey. Accounts of its founding differ: the geographer Scymnus credits settlers from Ionian Teos, while the Pseudo-Scymnus describes it as an Athenian colony founded by Phorbas.

Facts
Latitude
40.059722 degrees north 1
Longitude
26.230556 degrees east 1
Sources
1. Elaeus (Wikidata)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 40.059722, longitude 26.230556
  • In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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Wikidata: Elaeus
Wikidata Q1234913, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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