What city was founded by a Greek hero and is located on the Mediterranean Sea?
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Cadmus In Greek mythology, Cadmus ; Greek: Κάδμος "Kadmos"), was the founder and first king of Thebes. Cadmus was the first Greek hero and, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Initially a Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa, he was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named "Cadmeia" in his honour.
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Tyre, Lebanon Tyre (Arabic: صور‎ ‎ , "Ṣūr"; Phoenician: 𐤑𐤅𐤓 , "Ṣur"; <a href="Hebrew%20language">Hebrew</a>: צוֹר‎ , "Tsor"; <a href="Tiberian%20Hebrew">Tiberian Hebrew</a> , "Ṣōr"; <a href="Akkadian%20language">Akkadian</a>: , "Ṣurru"; <a href="Ancient%20Greek">Greek</a>: Τύρος, "Týros"; <a href="Turkish%20language">Turkish</a>: "Sur" ; <a href="Latin%20language">Latin</a>: "Tyrus" , Armenian Տիր [Dir]), sometimes <a href="romanization">romanized</a> as Sour, is a city in the <a href="South%20Governorate">South Governorate</a> of <a href="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>. There were approximately 117,000 inhabitants in 2003. However, the government of Lebanon has released only rough estimates of population numbers since 1932, so an accurate statistical accounting is not possible. Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean and is located about 80 km south of Beirut. The name of the city means "rock" after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. The adjective for Tyre is "Tyrian", and the inhabitants are "Tyrians".
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Alexandria on the Indus Alexandria on the Indus ( Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια η εν Ἰνδός, modern Uch, Pakistan) was a city founded by Alexander the Great at the junction of the Indus and the Acesines river. Arrian tells us that colonists, mainly Thracian veterans and natives, were settled there.
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Sea of Crete The Sea of Crete (Greek: Κρητικό Πέλαγος , "Kritiko Pelagos") is a sea, part of the Aegean Sea, located in its Southern extremity. The sea stretches to the North of the island of Crete, East of the islands of Kythera and Antikythera, South of the Cyclades, and West of the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kassos. The bounding sea to the West is the Ionian Sea. To the Northwest is the Myrtoan Sea - between Peloponnese and the Cyclades, also part of the Aegean Sea. To the East-SE is the rest of the Mediterranean Sea, sometimes credited as the Levantine Sea. Across the island of Crete, to the opposite shore of it begins the Libyan Sea. Ferry routes to and from Piraeus and Heraklion, as well as the Southern islands of the Aegean and the Dodecanese, run in this area. Just off the coastline of Northeastern Crete the sea reaches a maximum depth of near 3,294 m (10,000 ft.) Other sources (maps) show a maximum depth of 2,591 m.(8,500 ft.)
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Phaistos Phaistos (Greek: Φαιστός , ] ; Ancient Greek: Φαιστός , ] ), also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, currently refers to a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Phaistos, a municipality in south central Crete. Ancient Phaistos was located about 5.6 km east of the Mediterranean Sea and 62 km south of Heraklio, the second largest city of Minoan Crete. The name, Phaistos, survives from ancient Greek references to a city in Crete of that name, shown to be, in fact, at or near the current ruins.
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Piraeus Piraeus ( ; Greek: Πειραιάς "Pireás" ] , Ancient Greek: Πειραιεύς , "Peiraieús", ] ) is a port city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens urban area, 12 km southwest from its city center (municipality of Athens), and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf.
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Libyan Sea The Libyan Sea (Greek Λιβυκόν πέλαγος , Latin "Libycum Mare") is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the African coast of ancient "Libya", i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica
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Poseidon Poseidon ( ; Greek: Ποσειδῶν , ] ) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth. He was god of the Sea and other waters; of earthquakes; and of horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes.
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Plataea Plataea ( ) or Plataeae ( ; Ancient Greek: Πλάταια or Πλαταιαί ) was an ancient city, located in Greece in southeastern Boeotia, south of Thebes. It was the location of the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek city-states defeated the Persians.
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Phlius Phlius ( ; Ancient Greek: Φλειοῦς , "Phleious") was a Greek city in the northwestern Argolid (now in modern Corinthia, near Nemea), in the Peloponnese, said to be named after the Greek hero Phlias but formerly called Araethyrea ( ; Ἀραιθυρέα, "Araithurea"), after the mythological Araethyrea.
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Priene Priene (Ancient Greek: Πριήνη  "Priēnē" ; Turkish: "Prien" ) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia (and member of the Ionian League) at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about 6 km north of the then course of the Maeander (now called the Büyük Menderes or "Big Maeander") River, 67 km from ancient Anthea, 15 km from ancient Aneon and 25 km from ancient Miletus. It was formerly on the sea coast, built overlooking the ocean on steep slopes and terraces extending from sea level to a height of 380 m above sea level at the top of the escarpment. Today, after several centuries of changes in the landscape, it is an inland site. It is located at a short distance west of the modern village Güllübahçe Turun in the Söke district of Aydın Province, Turkey.
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Cumae Cumae (Ancient Greek: Κύμη  "(Kumē)" or Κύμαι "(Kumai)" or Κύμα "(Kuma)" ; Italian: "Cuma" ) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Founded by settlers from Euboea in the 8th century BC, Cumae was the first Greek colony on the mainland of Italy and the seat of the Cumaean Sibyl. The ruins of the city lie near the modern village of Cuma, a "frazione" of the "comune" Bacoli in the Province of Naples, Campania, Italy.
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Cecrops I Cecrops (Ancient Greek: Κέκροψ , "Kékrops"; "gen".: Κέκροπος) was a mythical king of Athens who, according to Eusebius reigned for fifty years. The name is not of Greek origin according to Strabo, or it might mean 'face with a tail': it is said that, born from the earth itself, he had his top half shaped like a man and the bottom half in serpent or fish-tail form. He was the founder and the first king of Athens itself, though preceded in the region by the earth-born king Actaeus of Attica. Cecrops was a culture hero, teaching the Athenians marriage, reading and writing, and ceremonial burial.
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Crete Crete (Greek: Κρήτη , "Kríti " ] ; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη , "Krḗtē") is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, 88th-largest island in the world and the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete (Greek: Περιφέρεια Κρήτης ), one of the 13 top-level administrative units of Greece. The capital and the largest city is Heraklion. s of 2011 , the region had a population of 623,065.
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Aytap Aytap (Ancient Greek: Ἰωτάπη , "Iotape") is a historical port city that is 30 km-33 km, east of Alanya, located in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey. Along with Alanya, Aytap is situated in the district of the Antalya Province. Where Aytap is situated there is a long modern road that stretches along the coast between Alanya and Gazipaşa. Aytap is situated between Alanya and Gazipaşa. Nowadays, Aytap is a popular tourist place. The city is popular for camping; swimming in the natural caves; swimming and using the local beaches or if tourists come to visit the ancient ruins.
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Hercules in ancient Rome In ancient Roman religion and myth, Hercules was venerated as a divinized hero and incorporated into the legends of Rome's founding. The Romans adapted Greek myths and the iconography of Heracles into their own literature and art, but the hero developed distinctly Roman characteristics. Some Greek sources as early as the 6th and 5th century BC gave Heracles Roman connections during his famous labors.
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Ionia Ionia (Ancient Greek: Ἰωνία or Ἰωνίη) is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionian tribe who, in the Archaic Period (600–480 BC), settled mainly the shores and islands of the Aegean Sea. Ionian states were identified by tradition and by their use of Eastern Greek.
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Apamea (Media) Apamea or Apameia (Greek: Απάμεια ) was a Hellenistic city in Media founded by Seleucus I Nicator, near Laodicea (now Nahavand, Iran) and Heraclea. (Strabo xi. p. 524 ; Stephanus of Byzantium "Laodikeia"). Apamea's precise location is not known, but it was located near Nahavand.
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Datos Datos (Ancient Greek: Δάτος ) was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace, located in the region between the river Strymon and the river Nestos.It was founded by colonists from Thasos at 360 BC.Datos was founded with the help and support of the Athenian exiled orator, Callistratus of Aphidnae. Datos was close to Mount Pangaion with its rich gold veins and to another Thasian colony, Krenides.The two colonies provoked the Thracians but at the same time gave Phillip II of Macedon the justification for penetrating the area and founding Philippi in 356 BC.
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Magydus Magydus (in Greek Μάγυδος, "Magydos") was an ancient settlement and bishopric on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Asia Minor (Asian Turkey), which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Phylace (Magnesia) Phylace (Greek: Φυλάκη ) was a Thessalian city west of the Gulf of Pagasae. According to Greek mythology, this city was founded by Phylacus. In Ancient Greece, Phylace was a kingdom. Its king, Protesilaus, was the first Greek hero killed in the Trojan War. Phylace (Greek: Φυλάκη, Fylaki) today is a tiny village in the Magnesia regional unit, in central Greece, near Almyros.
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Krenides Krenides (Ancient Greek: Κρενίδες ) was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace, located in the region between the river Strymon and the river Nestos.It was founded by colonists from Thasos at 360BC. Krenides was close to Mount Pangaion with its rich gold veins and to another Thasian colony, Datos.The two colonies provoked the Thracians but at the same time gave Phillip II of Macedon the justification for penetrating the area and founding Philippi in 356 BC.Phillip intervened to protect the city when it was threatened by Thracians under Kersobleptes.