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Elis
Regional unit of Western Greece
For other uses, see Elis (disambiguation).
"Ileia" redirects here. For the agro-ecological organisation, see ILEIA.
Regional unit in Greece
Elis also known as Ellis or Ilia (Greek: Ηλεία, Eleia) is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until it was Elis Prefecture, covering the same territory.
The modern regional unit is nearly coterminous with the ancient Elis of the classical period. Here lie the ancient ruins of cities of Elis, Epitalion and Olympia, known for the ancient Olympic Games which started in BC.
Geography
[edit]The northernmost point of Elis is 38° 06'N, the westernmost is 22°&#;12′E, the southernmost is 37°&#;18′N, and the easternmost is 21°&#;54′E. The length from north to south is &#;km (62&#;mi), and from east-to-west is around 55&#;km (34&#;mi).
The modern regional unit is not completely congruent with ancient Elis: Lampeia belonged to ancient Arcadia, and Kalogria is now part of Achaea.
The longest river is the Alfeios. Other rivers are the Erymanthos, Pineio
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Ancient Elis, the largest city and capital of the homonymous city-state, was built on the north banks of the Peneus River, between the mountainous part of Elis (Akroreia) and its coastal lowlands (Elis Koile). The site was inhabited almost continuously from the beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic (/,) until the end of the Early Byzantine period (seventh century AD), when the city was abandoned. Aetolos Oxylos is considered the city's mythical founder (twelfth-eleventh centuries BC). He allegedly took advantage of the Dorian invasion in order to subordinate the area's early inhabitants and founded the first settlement. The city thrived in the early historical period (eleventh-tenth centuries BC), during the late Archaic and early Classical periods (sixth-fifth centuries BC), and in the Early Roman period (second century BC - early third century AD).
Large numbers of flint tools from surface layers suggest that the site was inhabited since the Palaeolithic. Habitation concentrated primarily in the area of the later theatre at the end of the Neolithic, and on the acropolis during the late third and early second millennia BC. The Mycenaean period saw the development of several s
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Elis (city)
Ancient city-state, capital city of the district of Elis
Elis (Ancient Greek: Ἦλις, Doric Greek: Ἆλις, in the local dialect: Ϝᾶλις,[1] Modern Greek: Ήλιδα, romanized:&#;Elida) was the capital city of the ancient polis (city-state) of Elis, in ancient Greece. It was situated in the northwest of the Peloponnese, to the west of Arcadia. Just before the Peneius emerges from the hills into the plain, the valley of the river is contracted on the south bygd a projecting hill of a peaked form, and nearly feet (&#;m) in height. This hill was the acropolis of Elis, and commanded as well the narrow valley of the Peneius as the open plain beyond. The ancient city lay at the foot of the hill, and extended across the river, as Strabo says that the Peneius flowed through the city;[2] but since no remains are now found on the right or nordlig bank, it is probable that all the public buildings were on the left finansinstitut of the river, more especially as Pausanias does not man any allusion to the river in his description of the city.
Elis is mentioned as a town of the Epeii by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad;[3] but in the earliest ti