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Chorsiai
thumb|alt=The acropolis of Korsiai|The acropolis of Korsiai Corseae or Korsiai ( or Κορσιαί) was a port of ancient Boeotia on the Corinthian Gulf. It appears from Pliny the Elder that this town was distinct from Corseia, also in the western part of Boeotia, and that it was distinguished from the other by the name of Thebae Corsicae, that is the Corseae near or belonging to Thebes.
Pelinna
thumb|350px|Map showing ancient Thessaly. Pelinna (Pelinnaeum) is shown to the centre west north of Tricca.
Halasarna
Halasarna () or Halisarna (Ἁλισάρνα) or Halisarne (Ἁλασάρνη), was a town of ancient Greece on the south coast of the island of Cos.
Larissa Cremaste
ancient polis of Greece
Kainepolis
Caenepolis or Kainepolis (), also called Caene or Kaine (Καινή), was an Ancient Greek town of Laconia on the Mani Peninsula north of Cape Matapan. It is probably the same town mentioned by Strabo under the corrupt form Cinaedium or Kinaidion (Κιναίδιον). It contained a temple of Demeter and another of Aphrodite, the latter near the sea.
Pronnoi
thumb|240px|Remains of a Roman villa at Pronnoi. Pronnoi (), also known as Pronesus or Pronesos (Πρωνῆσος), was one of the four towns of Cephallenia, situated upon the southeastern coast. Together with the other towns of Cephallenia it joined the Athenian alliance in 431 BCE. It is described by Polybius as a small fortress; but it was so difficult to besiege that Philip V of Macedon did not venture to attack it, but sailed against Pale. Livy, in his account of the surrender of Cephallenia to the Romans in 189 BCE, speaks of the Nesiotae, Cranii, Palenses, and Samaei. Now as we know t
Geronthrae
Geronthrae or Geronthrai (), or Geranthrae or Geranthrai (Γεράνθραι), also written as Gerenthrae or Gerenthrai (Γερένθραι), was a town of ancient Laconia, situated in a commanding position upon the southwestern face of the mountain above the plain of the Eurotas. We learn from Pausanias that Geronthrae possessed a temple and grove of Ares, to whom a yearly festival was celebrated, from which women were excluded. Around the agora there were fountains of potable water. On the acropolis stood a temple of Apollo.
Cytinium
Cytinium or Kytinion ( or Κυτείνιον) was an ancient city and polis (city-state) of Greece, one of the towns of the tetrapolis of Doris. Its site is within the bounds of the modern village of .
Kardamyle
Cardamyle or Kardamyle () was a town of ancient Messenia. It is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as one of the seven places offered by Agamemnon to Achilles. It was situated on a strong rocky height at the distance of seven stadia from the sea, and sixty from Leuctra. It is called a Laconian town by Herodotus, since the whole of Messenia was included in the territories of Laconia at the time of the historian. It again became a town of Messenia on the restoration of the independence of the latter; but it was finally separated from Messenia by Augustus, and annexed to Laconia. Pausanias mentions
Teuthrone
Teuthrone () was a town in Ancient Greece on the Peloponnese in the region of ancient Laconia on the eastern shore of the Mani Peninsula. It was on the Laconian Gulf, some 150 stadia from Cape Matapan—called Tenairon or Tenaro by the ancient Greeks and Romans.