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AKRORIOS (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
Acroreia (Akroreia), the mountainous district of Elis on the borders
of Arcadia, in which the rivers Peneius and Ladon take their rise. The inhabitants
of the district were called Acrocreii (Akroreioi), and their towns appear to have
been Thraustus, Alium, Opus, and Eupagium. The name is used in opposition to Koile
or Hollow Elis. Stephanus (s. v.), who is followed by many modern writers, makes
Acrocreii a town, and places it in Triphylia; but this error appears to have arisen
from confounding the Acrocreii with the Paroreatae in Triphylia. (Diod. xiv. 17;
Xen. Hell. iii. 2 § 30, vii. 4. § 14; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 203; Boblaye,
Recherches, p. 123.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A woody area located at the triangle Achaia-Elis-Arcadia, near the sources of the Ladon and Peneius rivers. Xenophon mentions that Akrorios constituted a permanent reason of conflict between the Arcadians and the Elians because of its strategical location.
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