- (Gr****: Ήλιδα, romanized: Ilida,
Attic Gr****: Ἦλις, romanized: Ēlis /ɛ̂ːlis/;
Elean: Ϝᾶλις /wâːlis/, ethnonym: Ϝᾱλείοι) is an
ancient district in
Greece that...
- The
Elean or
Eleian War (c. 400 BC) was a
conflict between the Gr**** city-states of
Sparta and Elis.
Sparta and Elis had been
allies against Athens during...
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babakoi cicadas Elean (Attic tettiges) (in
Pontus babakoi frogs) βαίδειος
baideios ready (Attic hetoimos) (heteos fitness) βενέοι
beneoi Elean βορσός borsos...
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Elean Roslyn Thomas (18
September 1947 – 27 May 2004) was a
Jamaican poet, novelist,
journalist and activist. She was
active in the
struggle for women's...
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Elean power station is a straw-fired biom****
power station in Cambridgeshire, England. At a
capacity of 38 MW, it was the
largest straw-fired
power plant...
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representations on
coins and art. The
statue of Zeus was
commissioned by the
Eleans,
custodians of the
Olympic Games, in the
latter half of the
fifth century...
- The
Eretrian school of
philosophy was
originally the
School of Elis,
where it had been
founded by
Phaedo of Elis; it was
later transferred to
Eretria by...
- In Gr**** mythology, Tyro (Ancient Gr****: Τυρώ) was an
Elean princess who
later became Queen of Iolcus. Tyro was the
daughter of King
Salmoneus of Elis...
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Olympic Games; one of its turning-posts was preserved, and
round it grew an
Elean legend of a
burnt "house of Oenomaus",
reported by
Pausanias in the 2nd...
-
there is no
consensus concerning this issue. In
other dialects, such as
Elean and Cretan, the
symbol seems to have been used for
sounds resembling the...
