Helorus
Sign in to saveHelorus, Heloros, Helorum, or Elorus (Greek: or , Ptol., Steph. B. or , Scyl.; ), was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near the east coast, about 40 km south of Syracuse and on the banks of the river of the same name. It is currently an archaeological site in the modern comune of Noto.
Key facts
- Ancient site.dependency_of
- Syracuse
- Ancient site.name
- Helorus
- Ancient site.image
- Eloro-Sito-Archeologico.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- The archaeological site of Helorus
- Ancient site.map_type
- Italy
- Ancient site.location
- Noto, Province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- museum
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Noto
- Area
- 198000
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Employees
- 15
- Official website
- www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/dirbenicult/database/page_musei/pagina_musei.asp?ID=182&IdSito=82
- Image
- Eloro-Sito-Archeologico.jpg
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- Eloro
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- The site
- See also
- References
- External links
Helorus, Heloros, Helorum, or Elorus (Greek: or , Ptol., Steph. B. or , Scyl.; ), was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near the east coast, about 40 km south of Syracuse and on the banks of the river of the same name. It is currently an archaeological site in the modern comune of Noto.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helorus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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