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Gondolin Gondolin is a fictional city in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, inhabited by Elves. Found and founded with divine inspiration, it is hidden by mountains and endures for centuries before being betrayed and destroyed. It was the mightiest of the elven homes in the Hither Lands The city was famed for its walls, and had possible parallels to Troy
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Troy Troy (Ancient Greek: Τροία , "Troia" and Ἴλιον , "Ilion", or Ἴλιος , "Ilios"; Latin: "Trōia" and "Īlium" ; Hittite: "Wilusha" or "Truwisha"; Turkish: "Truva or Troya" ) was a city situated in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, near (just south of) the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the "Iliad", one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" suggests that the name Ἴλιον ("Ilion") formerly began with a digamma: Ϝίλιον ("Wilion"); this is also supported by the Hittite name for what is thought to be the same city, Wilusa.
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Eriador Eriador is a large region in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. The Shire, a land which became famous in the Third Age and again in modern times, was located in the central west of this region. The region was also called the Lone-lands, a translation of "Eriador".
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Gothmog (The First Age) Gothmog is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He appears in "The Silmarillion". Gothmog is a servant of Melkor (I.e. Morgoth) and leads or participates in many of his invasions throughout Arda. Though extremely formidable, Gothmog would meet his end at hands of Elf lord Ecthelion during the surprise attack on the hidden city of Gondolin.
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Arkham Arkham ( ) is a fictional town situated in Massachusetts. It is a dark city and an integral part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft, and it is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
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Colón, Panama Colón (] ) is a Panamanian city and sea port beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. Originally, it was located entirely on Manzanillo Island, surrounded by Limon Bay, Manzanillo Bay and the Folks River, but, since the disestablishment of the Panama Canal Zone, the city's limits have been redefined to include Fort Gulick, a former U.S. Army base, as well the former Canal Zone towns of Cristobal, Margarita and Coco Solo.
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Ostrakine Ostrakine (Greek: Ὀστρακίνη or Latin: Ostracena) was an Ancient Egyptian city at a location that is known as El Felusiyat today.
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Arda (Tolkien) In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in an imaginary period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in "The Lord of the Rings" and related material once existed. It included several seas and oceans, and the continents of Middle-earth, the Dark Lands, Aman (the Undying Lands), the island of Númenor, and other unknown lands left largely unnamed by Tolkien.
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Dunharrow Dunharrow is a fictional place from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Aldor established it as a refuge of the Rohirrim hidden in the White Mountains and fortified against attack. Dunharrow had been used as a refuge by the Middle Men of the White Mountains during the Second Age — many millennia before Rohan.
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Sodor (fictional island) Sodor is a fictional island located in the Irish Sea, just off the English mainland near Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. It is the setting for "The Railway Series" books by the Rev. W. Awdry (and his son Christopher), and also for the popular television series "Thomas & Friends".
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Loch Ness Loch Ness ( ; Scottish Gaelic: "Loch Nis" ] ) is a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 37 km southwest of Inverness. Its surface is 52 ft above sea level. Loch Ness is best known for alleged sightings of the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster, also known affectionately as "Nessie". It is connected at the southern end by the River Oich and a section of the Caledonian Canal to Loch Oich. At the northern end there is the Bona Narrows which opens out into Loch Dochfour, which feeds the River Ness and a further section of canal to Inverness. It is one of a series of interconnected, murky bodies of water in Scotland; its water visibility is exceptionally low due to a high peat content in the surrounding soil.
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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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Belfort Belfort (] ) is a city in northeastern France in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg. It is the biggest town and the administrative town of the Territoire de Belfort département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Belfort is 400 km from Paris, 141 km from Strasbourg, 290 km from Lyon and 150 km from Zürich. The residents of the city are called "Belfortains". The city is located on the Savoureuse, on the strategically important natural route between the Rhine and the Rhône – the Belfort Gap ("Trouée de Belfort") or Burgundian Gate ("Porte de Bourgogne").
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Lapaliiya Lapaliiya is a location on Faerûn, a fictional continent, the primary setting of the Forgotten Realms, for "Dungeons & Dragons".
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Kymmendö Kymmendö is an island in the south of Stockholm archipelago. Kymmendö is the model for the fictional island Hemsö in August Strindberg's novel "The People of Hemsö".
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Selinunte Selinunte ( ; Ancient Greek: Σελινοῦς , "Selinous"; Latin: "Selinūs" ) was an ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily in Italy. It was situated between the valleys of the Belice and Modione rivers. It now lies in the "comune" Castelvetrano, between the "frazioni" of Triscina di Selinunte in the west and Marinella di Selinunte in the east. The archaeological site contains five temples centered on an acropolis. Of the five temples, only the Temple of Hera, also known as "Temple E", has been re-erected. At its peak before 409 BC the city may have contained up to 30,000 people, excluding slaves.
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New Milford, New Hampshire New Milford is a fictional town in New Hampshire, United States. It was the subject of a hoax article published in 2011 by "The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs", which described the community as being a flourishing Victorian-era village in the White Mountains during the early 20th century. According to the article, New Milford had been incorporated in 1852 by working-class quarry workers, had enjoyed prosperity for many years, and then declined in the early 20th century, following a succession of unfortunate disasters at the quarry site, the decline of rail-based tourism, the Great Depression, and the outbreak of World Wars. Research by the Milford, New Hampshire, Historical Society and the New Hampshire State Library following the publication of the article led to the discovery that the article was fictitious.
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Khasab Khasab (Arabic: خصب‎ ‎ Ḫaṣab) is a city in an exclave of Oman bordering the United Arab Emirates. It is the local capital of the Musandam peninsula and has frequently been dubbed the "Norway of Arabia" because of its extensive fjord-like craggy inlets and desolate mountainscapes.
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Shire (Middle-earth) The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in "The Lord of the Rings" and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is located in the northwest of the continent, in the large region of Eriador and the Kingdom of Arnor. In the languages invented by Tolkien, its name in Westron was Sûza "Shire" or Sûzat "The Shire", while its name in Sindarin was i Drann.
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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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List of Dragonlance locations "Dragonlance" locations are locations in the fictional "Dragonlance" universe, including cities, towns, castles and villages all found in the world of Krynn. Krynn is divided into five main continents: Ansalon, The Dragon Isles, Ithin'carthia, Taladas, and Adlatum, as well as the subterranean continent of Chorane.
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Middle-earth Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.