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Ephesus
Ephesus ( ; ; ; may ultimately derive from ) was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa, a city-state that was also the capital of Arzawa, by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. During the Classical Greek era, it was one of twelve cities that were members of the Ionian League. The city came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC.
Paros
Paros (; ; ) is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea and part of the Cyclades island group. It lies 8 kilometers (5 miles) west of Naxos, separated by a narrow channel and about south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros covers about , including numerous uninhabited offshore islets. Its closest neighbor is the municipality of Antiparos, located to the southwest. In ancient Greece, the island was home to the city-state of Paros.
Salamis Island
island in the Saronic Gulf near Piraeus, Greece
Amphipolis
thumb|Map of Amphipolis Amphipolis (; ) was an important ancient Greek polis (city), and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen. It gave its name to the modern municipality of Amphipoli, in the Serres regional unit of Northern Greece.
Ahtopol
Ahtopol ( , ) is a town and seaside resort on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.
Thurii
Thurii (; ; ), called also by some Latin writers Thūrium (compare , in Ptolemy), and later in Roman times also Cōpia and Cōpiae, was an ancient Greek city situated on the Gulf of Taranto, near or on the site of the great renowned city of Sybaris, whose place it may be considered as having taken. The ruins of the city can be found in the Sybaris archaeological park near Sibari in the Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.
Cardia
ancient city of Thrace in modern-day Turkey
Histiaia
[[File:Euboia Histiaia 2 BMC61 1.xcf|alt=Silver tetrobol from Euboia, Histiaia|thumb|299x299px|Silver tetrobol from Euboia, Histaia. Wreathed head of the Nymph Histiaia right; [IΣTI] - AEIΩN, Nymph Histiaia seated right on stern of galley, ornamented with wing, holding naval standard; AP monogram and labrys in exergue; BMC 61; BCD 391]]
Astacus in Bithynia
ancient city of Bithynia in modern-day Turkey
Berge
ancient city in Serres, Greece
Agora
ancient city of Thrace in modern-day Turkey
Brea
ancient Greek colony in Bisaltia, Thrace
Athenae Diades
town of ancient Euboea, Greece
Cerinthus
historic town in Greece