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 Eleusina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the religious observances anciently held at Eleusis, see Eleusinian Mysteries; for the inductive logic card game, see Eleusis (game).
Elefsina (Greek: Ελεύσινα, Ancient/Katharevousa: Ἐλευσίς Eleusis) is a small town about 30 km NW of Athens, seat of administration of the prefecture West Attica.
It is best known for having been the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the major cults of ancient Greece.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleusis   (320 words)

  
 Athens
Currently the city (metropolitan area) is growing northwards and eastwards across Attica (Greater Athens).
Athens sprawls across the central plain of Attica, which is bound by Mount Aegaleo in the west, Mount Parnitha in the north, Mount Penteli in the northeast, Mount Hymettus in the east, and the Saronic Gulf in the southwest.
Huge malls such as the "Attica" mall in Panepistimiou Avenue and "The Mall Athens" [8] located in the classy northern suburb of Maroussi also offer an enormous variety of international selections that can totally satisfy even the most demanding customer.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/at/athens.html   (3709 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Crete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The island has three significant airports, Nikos Kazantzakis at Heraklion, the military airport Daskalogiannis at Chania and a new public airport in Sitia.
The island of Crete is a periphery of Greece, consisting of four prefectures (Greek: νόμοι):
For amateur radio purposes it is considered to be a separate "entity," prefix SV9.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Crete   (741 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia
The Peloponnese is a periphery of Greece, consisting of 5 prefectures (Greek: νομοί):
The prefectures of Achaea and Elis are also part of the peninsula, but are part of the West Greece periphery.
A small part of the peninsula belongs to the "mainland" periphery of Attica.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Peloponnesus   (901 words)

  
 Did the Phoenicians Introduce the Idea of Interest to Greece and Italy; and if so When?
From the Iranian plains to the Aegean, enough Bronze Age records have survived to show that it was neither easy nor automatic for less centralized societies to adopt commercial debt, or for that matter for the Hittite and Mycenaean palace economies to do so.
Political duties might have included membership in the political following of the rich as in the case of the regional parties in Attica." In sum, "To be a debtor was not a contractual situation but entailed a caste‑like status.
However, archaic Greece and Italy had no centralized rulers to proclaim such debt cancellations — or, where kings existed as in Rome, they were overthrown by aristocratic families hardly eager to cancel their populations' debts.
www.phoenicia.org /interest.htm   (11521 words)

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