Hephaistia
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thumb|240px|The ancient theater in Hephaistia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hieron
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Limnos Municipality
- Dedicated to
- Hephaestus
- Image
- Hephaistia Ancient Theatre S3000132.jpeg
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- culture
- Ancient Greece
- located in/on physical feature
- Lemnos
- Commons category
- Hephaestia
- described at URL
- odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/gh151.jsp?obj_id=2396
- native label
- Ηφαιστία
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thumb|240px|The ancient theater in Hephaistia
Hephaestia and Hephaistia (), or Hephaestias or Hephaistias (Ἡφαιστίας), was a town of Ancient Greece, now an archeological site on the northern shore of Lemnos, Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It was named in the honor of Hephaistos, Greek god of metallurgy, whose cult was maintained on the island. It was once the capital of the island (8th to 6th centuries BCE), of which only the ruins remain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hephaistia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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