Archaic (pre-550 BC)
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Spina — by M. Pearce — last modified Nov 17, 2022 02:08 PM
- An Etruscan port city at the mouth of the Po river on the Adriatic Sea, most likely founded at the end of the sixth century B.C.
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Styra — by J. Fossey — last modified Apr 22, 2024 05:19 PM
- Styra was an ancient port city located in the southwestern part of Euboea that possessed also an inland acropolis (on the modern peak of Hagios Nikolaos), extensive quarries, and a series of large stone structures known today as drakospita (dragon's houses).
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Sulci(s) — by S.L. Dyson — last modified Nov 23, 2021 11:11 PM
- A site with Phoenician origins (founded ca. 730-700 B.C.) located in southwestern Sardinia. Site of a Roman naval victory against Carthage by Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus in 258 BC during the First Punic War.
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Sybaris/Thurii/Copia — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Oct 02, 2024 10:14 AM
- Sybaris was an ancient city of Magna Graecia founded as an Achaean colony as early as 720 B.C. on a plain drained by both the Crati and Sybaris rivers.
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Tainaron (settlement) — by G. Reger — last modified Jan 20, 2022 09:26 PM
- An ancient settlement, located near the tip of a southern peninsula of the Peloponnese (modern Cape Matapon in Greece). The site featured a sanctuary of Poseidon and served as both a port and a mercenary staging and recruitment area at least as early as the Classical period.
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Tartessos — by Jr. — last modified Oct 17, 2022 01:07 PM
- Tartessos was a harbor city and surrounding region located on the southern coast of the Iberian peninsula at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River.
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Telamon — by W.V. Harris — last modified Sep 24, 2023 09:47 AM
- An ancient city of coastal Etruria, Telamon was eventually razed by L. Cornelius Sulla.
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Torikos/Pagras Limen/Heptalou Limen — by David Braund — last modified Mar 02, 2022 05:16 PM
- Torikos/Pagras Limen/Heptalou Limen (modern Gelendzhik) was a Greek trading outpost on the Black Sea known to the Romans as Pagrae.
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Ulixis Portus — by R.J.A. Wilson — last modified Feb 13, 2024 01:20 PM
- An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 G3 Ulixis Portus