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  Elaea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elaea, said to have been founded by Menestheus, was situated at a distance of twelve stadia from the mouth of the Caicus, one hundred and twenty stadia from Pergamus.
As a suffragan of Ephesus Elaea is mentioned by most "Notitiae episcopatuum" as late as the twelfth or the thirteenth century.
The Greek Church also gives the title of Elaea to auxiliary bishops.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/elaea.html   (223 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Elaea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elaea (Greek: Ελαία) can refer to any of several different items in ancient geography.
Elaea, chief city of Elaeatis in Epirus at the mouth of the Acheron
Elaea, one of the Demonisi group, in Bithynia, now in Turkey
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Elaea   (77 words)

  
 Elaea Beach Hotel Dassia, Kerkyra Is, Greece - Elaea Beach Hotel Group Booking Reservation Meetings Meeting ...
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 Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It was colonized later by Ionians who came from Teos and Erythrae or Clazomenae.
Phocaea founded important colonies in the W (Elaea / Velia in Italy and Massalia / Marseilles).
In the area of the modern gymnasium architectural members from the poros temple of Athena (6th century BC) have been found (in the İzmır Archaeological Museum).
www.ypai.gr /atlas/thesi_uk.asp?idthesis=165   (85 words)

  
 Appian's History of the Syrian Wars
On account of this Eumenes sailed with haste to Elaea, the naval station of his kingdom, and with him Lucius Aemilius Regillus, the successor of Livius as admiral.
[§30] After this conference Publius was taken sick and withdrew to Elaea, leaving Cnaeus Domitius as his brother's counselor.
Antiochus thinking, as Philip of Macedonia did, that nothing worse than these terms could befall him if he were vanquished in war, drew his forces together near the plain of Thyatira not far from the enemy, and sent Scipio's son to him at Elaea.
www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_syriaca_06.html   (1658 words)

  
 Ayios Theodoros A Greek village in Cyprus occupied by the Turkish army since 1974
Nearby is the famous Elaea Cape covered with low forest and thousands of olive trees.
Not far from the seashores the remains exist of an ancient city, probably Elaea, which was destroyed by earthquakes in 343 A.D. After the city's destruction the survived inhabitants moved towards Ayios Theodoros.
During the 4th century A.D. the village has taken its modem Christian name after the Roman soldier Theodoros who became a martyr and a saint of Christianity.
www.nostos.com /org/aytheo   (415 words)

  
 Pergamum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
During the principate, Pergamum's position as the most powerful city in Asia was quickly stripped away by the up-and-coming city of Ephesus.
Nonetheless, Pergamum controlled an expansive conventus, presumably stretching from the mouth of the Caicus valley at Elaea and its source at Stratonicea.
The city was also the host of a developed ruler cult, including the temple of Trajan.
persweb.wabash.edu /facstaff/royaltyr/AncientCities/web/dilwortb/Website/Metropolises/Pergamum.html   (242 words)

  
 St. Luke
Nicephorus says he died at Thebes in Boeotia, and that his tomb was shown near that place in his time; but seems to confound the evangelist with St. Luke Stiriote, a hermit of that country.
Hippolytus says[15] St. Luke was crucified at Elaea in Peloponnesus near Achaia.
The modern Greeks tell us he was crucified on an olive tree.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/STLUKE.htm   (1288 words)

  
 Aeolis, Elaea, ancient coins index with thumbnails - WildWinds.com
Aeolis, Elaea, ancient coins index with thumbnails - WildWinds.com
Entry for Elaea on the Digital Historia Numorum
Search for Elaea in the British SNG Volumes' Database at the Fitzwilliam Museum
www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/aeolis/elaea/t.html   (88 words)

  
 MYSIA - Online Information article about MYSIA
Greek towns, several of which were places of considerable importance; thus the northern portion included Parium, See also:
Assus, Adramyttium, and farther south, on the Elaitic Gulf, Elaea, Myrina and Cyme.
Ancient writers agree in describing the Mysians as a distinct See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOS_NAN/MYSIA.html   (783 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Since this scheme also involved getting some of the locals to believe that Ares was still a god, for him to stay in Elaea was not an option, and so they moved on together -- just as they moved on from the quiet village they passed through a few days later.
Before, when they had traveled in the company of Eve or Virgil, Gabrielle had sometimes found that she missed having Xena all to herself, missed the ease of their chats and the comfort of their silences.
The day after leaving Elaea, as they rode through a long stretch of the open plain, it finally got to her; she prodded Clio and took off at a gallop, slowing down nearly two hundred paces ahead.
www.toloveorfight.afrozenflame.com /FF/LadyKate/ettg.html   (22376 words)

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