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	Dictionary Geographical: Abae to Byzeres, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		City in Phocis, the region bordering the Gulf of Corinth west of Boeotia.
		City in Phocis (the region bordering the Gulf of Corinth west of Boeotia) [Hom.Il.2.521; Strab.9.3.15].
		Coastal city in northwestern Elis [Hom.Il.2.615, 11.756, 11.760, 23.631].
	www.maicar.com /GML/001ShortEntries/SGAbae.html (5448 words)

	Saint Apollonia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Saint Apollonia was one of the group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians previous to the persecution of Decius.
		Apollonia and a whole group of early martyrs did not await the death they were threatened with, but either to preserve their chastity or because they were confronted with the alternative of renouncing their faith or suffering death, voluntarily embraced the death prepared for them, an action that runs perilously close to suicide, some thought.
		The Roman Catholic Church celebrates Apollonia on February 9, and she is popularly invoked against the toothache because of the torments she had to endure.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Saint_Apollonia (895 words)

	Ancient Greece Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Greek cities were originally monarchies, although many of them were very small and the term "King" (basileus) for their rulers is misleadingly grand.
		In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unable to maintain their independence and came under the rule of the Persian Empire in the mid 6th century BC.
		He organized the cities into the League of Corinth, and announced that he would lead an invasion of Persia to liberate the Greek cities and avenge the Persian invasions of the previous century.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ancient_Greece (5209 words)

	Apollonia, Albania
		Apollonia, like Dyrrachium further north, was an important port on the Illyrian coast and one of the western starting points of the Via Egnatia leading east to Thessaloniki and Byzantium in Thrace.
		Christianity was established in the city at an early stage, and bishops from Apollonia were present during the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Council of Chalcedon (451).
		Apollonia in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean.
	creekin.net /c1080-n2-apollonia-albania.html (706 words)

	DENİZLİ MUSEUM - Travelers' Stories About Turkey
		The city is in the borders of Vakıf village that is 10 km northwest of Tavas District.
		Apollonia archaic city and Medet Tumulus is in the residence area of Medet Village established on a plain that is 7 km west of Tavas District of Denizli Province.
		The archaic city is understood to be established in accordance with the geographical condition of the land on the plain lying from north towards south.
	www.adiyamanli.org /travel/index.php?showtopic=90 (4629 words)

	Apollonia-Arsuf
		Crusader rule came to an end in 1265, when, after a forty-day siege, the city was conquered by the Mamluk ruler Baibars and the defenders of the fortress surrendered.
		A portion of the city wall of Apollonia-Arsur and a corner tower were exposed in the southeaestern part of the city.
		Significant evidence of the Mamluk siege in 1265 and the ensuing battle to conquer the city and the fortress was found.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Archaeology/Apollonia.html (1170 words)

	h4ppy.com - Christian's life and travels: Apollonia and Cyrene
		Apollonia is 20km east of Cyrene and served as the port.
		The Greek city of Apollonia, which served as port for the Pentapolis.
		The ancient city of Cyrene, capital of the Greek Pentapolis.
	www.h4ppy.com /blog/2006/04/apollonia-and-cyrene.html (679 words)

	Archaeology Insitute, Tel-Aviv University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The depiction of Apollonia on the Tabula Peutingeriana, on the coastal highway between Joppa and Caesarea, and at the distance of 22 miles from the latter, is of great importance to the present discussion.
		Apollonia is also recorded in one of the later copies of the Cosmography of Ravenna, compiled by the geographer Guido (ibid.; ed.
		These sources indicate that, in the mid-5th century C.E., Sozousa/Apollonia was a city of the Byzantine province of Palaestina prima that had the official status of a civitas, and that its Christian population was organized in an official community headed by a bishop.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/archaeology/press/monograph16.html (1975 words)

	The city of Apollonia
		The economic prosperity of apollonia grew on the basis of tradein slaves,and the local pastoral agriculture,with coins having been found as far as the
		It was in Apollonia that Octavian heard the news of Julius Caesar´s death, in 44 BC it was noted by
		Apollonia was an early centre of Christianity in the region,with a bishop attending the
	www.geocities.com /albaland/apollonia (447 words)

	ALBANIA: The Ruins of Apollonia
		About eight miles outside the city of Fier are the ruins of the ancient city of Apollonia...
		Founded in 588 BC by Greeks from Corinth, the city quickly grew to 50,000 residents by the second century BC.
		Apollonia later became a free Roman city after it sided with Julius Caesar during the war against Pompey.
	albania.curtprins.com /apollonia.html (124 words)

	Apollonia
		Libyan Apollonia, the modern Marsa-Susa, was the seaport of ancient Cyrene.
		The ancient city is, however, free from occupation and its heavy Hellenistic walls lie along the shore some one hundred yards from the present beach.
		Apollonia has a history of a thousand years, and it was our hope to aid in piecing together the evidence for the various periods in her long career.
	www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Excavation/Apollonia.html (940 words)

	CNN.com - Farmer unearths ancient city - October 12, 2000
		The ancient town, still known today by the name of Apollonia, was found under a series of fields last month after a farmer discovered a golden wreath buried in the ground.
		It was inhabited from 400 B.C. to the 8th century, she said, and provides a slice of life from an era dating back to the Peloponnesian wars and Periclean Athens, to the middle years of the Byzantine empire.
		So far a portion of the east and north fortifying walls of the city have been excavated along with four towers that date to the 5th century B.C., while a fifth tower was found and will soon be dug up.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/10/12/greece.unearth.ap (649 words)

	Archeology in Israel - Apollonia
		Apollonia is an ancient settlement, established by the seafaring Phoenicians, and due to it still being excavated periodically, there is a big chance that in years to come much more details and buildings will turn up.
		The city had a natural harbor and from it the Phoenician fishermen set out to fish for snails which excreted the famous red dye which was traded throughout the ancient world.
		By the way, entrance to the city was not here, but on the east side of the city, which lies in the area that is not yet incorporated in the park, although it is already designated as such.
	www.jewishmag.com /96mag/apollonia/apollonia.htm (1688 words)

	Apollonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apollonia in Israel, later called Arsuf, near modern Herzliya.
		Apollonia 6 was the musical group led by Apollonia Kotero, taking over from Prince's defunct Vanity 6.
		Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone was a fictional character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather saga.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollonia_(city) (122 words)

	Apollonia - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The most important are the following: (1) An Illyrian city (known as Apollonia KaT' 'E1riSa t wov or 7rpos 'E7ruk,uvcp) on the right bank of the Aous, founded by the Corinthians and Corcyraeans.
		It soon became a place of increasing commercial prosperity, as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and as one of the starting-points of the Via Egnatia.
		(2) A Thracian city on the Black Sea (afterwards Sozopolis, and now Sizeboli), colonized by the Milesians, and famous for its colossal statue of Apollo by Calamis, which Lucullus removed to Rome.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Apollonia (229 words)

	Gems in Israel: Apollonia National Park
		The city of Apollonia and its fort were situated on the cliffs of the Sharon plain, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
		In the Hellenistic period the city was re-named Apollonia, as the Greeks identified Resheph with Apollo.
		Baldwin I succeeded in conquering the city, in the spring of 1101 – with the Genoese fleet.
	www.gemsinisrael.com /e_article000079508.htm (668 words)

	ACLIS - Albanian Canadian League Information Service - A logistic office of Albanian Canadian League -
		Apollonia, like Dyrrachium further north, was an important port on the Illyrian coast as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and as one of the western starting points of the Via Egnatia leading east to Thessaloniki and Byzantium in Thrace.
		However, the city became increasingly uninhabitable as the inland swamp expanded and the nearby settlement of Vlora became dominant.
		In 345 BC the city was levelled by an earthquake and rebuilt on its old foundations.
	www.albca.com /aclis/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=880 (1150 words)

	Fier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fier is 12 km from the ruins of the ancient Corinthian city of Apollonia.
		2.2 The Excavations and the Monuments of Apollonia
		Fier is an important industrial city and is built by the Gjanica tributary of the Seman river, and is surrounded by marshland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fier (1273 words)

	Philippi
		The ancient city was built on the marshes of the south east plain of Drama.
		The Via Egnatia passes through the city, to the north was the theater, dating from the time of Philip II and smaller open air sanctuaries.
		The city was abandoned in the 7th century due to earthquakes and Slav raids, and was desolated by the Turks in the 14th century.
	www.wdbydana.com /philippi.htm (1184 words)

	Apollonia - SkyscraperCity
		In the years from 214 BC onwards the city was involved in the war between the Illyrian Taulanti and Casander,the King of Macedonia; and in 229 BC came under Roman control.
		It was in Apollonia that Octavian heard the news of Julius Caesar´s death, in 44 BC it was noted by Cicero, in the Philipics,as magna urbs et gravis, a great and important city.
		Apollonia was an early centre of Christianity in the region,with a bishop attending the Counsil of Ephesus in 431, and the Counsil of Chalkis in 451.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=206357 (1535 words)

	Thessaloniki
		The city is intersected by the Via Egnatia In 442 BC Amphipolis broke away from its mother city, Athens, and remained independent until its incorporation into the kingdom of Macedonia by Philip II in 357 BC.
		Apollonia is near the present day village of Nea Apollonia, another city on the Via Egnatia, about 30 miles west of Amphipolis.
		In 42 BC it was declared a free city.
	www.wdbydana.com /thessalonica.htm (1324 words)

	Apollo or Gorgon? (the coins of Apollonia Pontika)
		Apollonia Pontika was founded in 610 BC by Ionian Greeks from Miletus and named after Apollo.
		The city was renamed Sozopol ("Salvation") in the 4th century AD when it accepted Christianity and still exists today in Bulgaria, a hamlet of 4500 people with a yearly "Apollonia" arts festival.
		The drachms of Apollonia Pontika are dated by SNG Black Sea to the later 5th century BC through the 4th century.
	www.snible.org /coins/ap.html (1471 words)

	Antic city of Apollonia
		In the 4C BC, the city is thought to have spread to the south and south-west of this acropolis.
		The first large-scale fortification of the city undertook place in the 4C BC and with later construction in the 3C and in the time of
		The surrounding closters were inhabited by the monks, and their cells and a variety of domestic and agricultural buildings can be seen around the perimeter.
	www.geocities.com /albaland/apollonia3 (768 words)

	St. Apollonia
		Dei, I, 26); "But, they say, during the time of persecution certain holy women plunged into the water with the intention of being swept away by the waves and drowned, and thus preserve their threatened chastity.
		A later legend assigned a similar martyrdom to Apollonia, a Christian virgin of Rome in the reign of Julian the Apostate.
		The little square, however, in which it stood is still called "Piazza Sant' Apollonia".
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/apollonia,saint.html (477 words)

	Apollonia Art Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Apollonia is a Non Governmental Organization, supported by sponsorship only.
		The first Apollonia Festival of Arts was held in Sozopol in 1984.
		Apollonia Art Foundation is constantly striving to promote new ideas and solutions in a sole drive to bring this cultural event to a wider audience, both, Bulgarian and foreign.
	apollonia.dir.bg /en/about.html (419 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Apollonia
		Apollonia the parthénos presbûtis (virgo presbytera, by which he very probably means not a
		Apollonia belongs, therefore, to that class of early Christian martyrs who did not await the death they were threatened with, but either to preserve their
		Apollonia; in his eyes she was as much a martyr as the others, and as such she was revered in the Alexandrian
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01617c.htm (653 words)

	Greece-Athens.com - The Guide To Athens city, Greece
		The city with the most glorious history in the world, a city worshipped by gods and people, a magical city.
		It is the city where democracy was born and most of the wise men of ancient times.
		The 5th century was the time of its ultimate bloom, when moral values and civilization surpassed city limits and became the mother land of western civilization.
	www.greece-athens.com (869 words)

	Albanian Temple Unearthed By UC Archeologists
		A sculptural relief from Apollonia of the goddess Artemis.
		The monumental temple is "the third of its kind to be discovered at Apollonia and only the fifth in all of Albania," said Jack L. Davis, the Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati.
		Measuring off a grid in the low-lying land between the ancient walls of Apollonia and the Adriatic Sea, team members walked, painstakingly searching for artifacts hidden in the dirt and vegetation.
	www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=2601 (1148 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: AMORE, MARIA GRAZIA
		Conclusions are based on a long history of research and investigations that have been carried out in the form of excavations and surface survey within the city walls of Apollonia, in its necropolis, and in its chora.
		Part of this work is dedicated to a thorough collection and collation of published information from Apollonia, while the core of my analyses considers recent data from the systematic surface survey in its territory sponsored by the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project and the excavation of one of the many tumuli in its large necropolis.
		The comparison of data from excavations within the city with those coming from the survey and the necropolis has been particularly useful in exploring various aspects of the social, economic, and cultural dynamics of ancient society.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?ucin1109186628 (271 words)

	St. Apollonia - Virtual Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Apollonia, a deaconess and a holy virgin who suffered martyrdom in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians (end of 248, or beginning of 249).
		During some festivities the agitation of the populace rose to a great level, and when one of their poets prophesied a calamity, they began massacres of the Christians whom the authorities made no effort to protect.
		Apollonia's cult was popular in the early centuries of Christianity in the West, but there was no cult in the East.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /art/saints/apollonia.html (202 words)

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