Listed 28 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "LACONIA Prefecture PELOPONNISOS" .
PELLANA (Mycenean settlement) PELANA
Remarkable sights I remember seeing here were a sanctuary of Asclepius and the spring Pellanis. Into it they say a maiden fell when she was drawing water, and when she had disappeared the veil on her head reappeared in another spring, Lancia.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Place at Sparta.
Place in Sparta.
And there is a place called Platanistas (Plane-tree Grove) from the unbroken ring of tall plane trees growing round it. The place itself, where it is customary for the youths to fight, is surrounded by a moat just like an island in the sea; you enter it by bridges.
Fountain at Sparta.
Street in Sparta, origin of name.
VRYSSES (Ancient city) SPARTI
Peak of Mountain Taygetus, sacred to Sun, SW of Brysae
ACHILLION (Ancient port) ANATOLIKI MANI
The promontory of Taenarum projects into the sea 150 stades from Teuthrone, with the harbors Achilleius.(Perseus Encyclopedia)
ASSOPOS (Municipality) LACONIA
Situated on the foothill of the rocky cape Xili. The year of its establishment is still unknown, as well as the origin of its colonists. We can calculate the time of year of its establishment, on the Copper Age or the Neolithic Age, before the city of Kyparissia, because in the area there have been found objects which are identified as being from the Ages which we mentioned before.
EGIES (Ancient city) GYTHIO
Here is a lake called Poseidon's, and by the lake is a temple with an image of the god. They are afraid to take out the fish, saying that a fisherman in these waters turns into the fish called the fisher.
LAS (Ancient city) GYTHIO
Arainus (Arainos), a small place in Laconia, on the western side of the Laconian
gulf, containing the monument of Las, who founded a town called Las after him.
Boblaye places Arainus at Agheranos (Paus. iii. 24. § 10; Boblaye Recherches,
&c. p. 88; comp. Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 173.)
MONEMVASSIA (Village) LACONIA
There was a cape (akra, Paus. 3.23.11) with a fort (Strab. 368) called Minoa; this may have been the promontory of Monemvasia, which, however, is now an island.
PARNONAS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
A river called Tanaus, which is the only one descending from Mount Parnon, flows through the Argive territory and empties itself into the Gulf of Thyrea.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Fountain at Therapne.
The Lacedaemonians give the name Running Course to the place where it is the custom for the young men even down to the present day to practise running.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon: a pit or underground cavern at Sparta, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown (Th.1.134), (Paus. 4.18.4).
Perseus Project - Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short: a mountain in Laconia, on the Eurotas, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 28.
TAYGETOS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
Place in Laconia.
Peak of Mt. Taygetus, sacred to Sun
TEFTHRONI (Ancient city) ANATOLIKI MANI
Spring at Teuthrone.
LAKEDEMON (Ancient country) PELOPONNISOS
Thyrides (Thurides), a promontory of Laconia, on the western coast
of the Taygetic peninsula, now called Cape Grosso. It is of a semicircular form,
nearly 7 miles in circumference, and rises from the sea to the height of 700 feet.
There are many apertures and clefts in the rocks, the abodes of innumerable pigeons,
and from the window-like form of these holes the whole promontory has received
the name of Thyrides. Strabo describes it as a rhoodes kremnos, a precipitous
cape beaten by the winds, distant 130 stadia from Taenarum (reckoning from the
northern point of Thyrides); Pausanias, as a promontory (akra), situated 70 stadia
from Taenarum (reckoning from the southern point of the promontory). Pausanias
likewise calls it a promontory of Taenarum, using the latter word in its widest
sense, to signify the whole peninsula of Mani. According to Strabo, the Messenian
gulf terminated at this promontory. Pliny (iv. 12. s. 56) mentions three islands
of the name of Thyrides in the Asinaean gulf. (Pans. iii. 25. § 9; Strab. viii.
pp. 360, 362; Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 302, seq.; Boblaye, Recherches, &c. p.
91; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 281.)
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
Malea (Malea, Steph. B. s. v. et alii; Maleai, Herod. i. 82; Strab. viii. p. 368), still called Malia, a promontory of Laconia, and the most southerly point in Greece with the exception of Taenarum.
PSAMATHOUS (Ancient city) ANATOLIKI MANI
A fountain in Laconia, near Psamathus
TAYGETOS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
Spring in Taygetus
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