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- Tetrapolis (Gr****: Τετράπολις '(having) four cities') may refer to: Tetrapolis (Attica), a district comprising four cities in ancient Attica, Greece Doric...
- Seleucid Empire located in northern Syria. It was also known as the Syrian Tetrapolis, on account of its four most important cities, for it had many. These...
- The Doric Tetrapolis (Gr****: Δωρική Τετράπολις) comprised a set of four closely situated cities in the valley of the Pindus River in the region of Doris...
- Tetrapolis (Gr****: Τετράπολις) comprised one of the twelve districts into which Attica was divided before the time of Theseus. The district was on a plain...
- Marathon, Probalinthus, Tricorythus, and Oenoe, which originally formed the Tetrapolis, one of the 12 districts into which Attica was divided before the time...
- newly founded colonies such as Antioch, the other cities of the Syrian tetrapolis, Seleucia (north of Babylon) and Dura-Europos on the Euphrates. These...
- its widest part. In this valley there were four towns forming the Doric tetrapolis: Erineus, Boium, Cytinium, and Pindus, also called Akyphas. Erineus, as...
- legendary Ionian king of Athens. Strabo ****igns these the names of Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Epacria, Decelea, Eleusis, Aphidna, Thoricus, Brauron, Cytherus, Sphettus...
- and the daughter of king Erechtheus of Athens. Xuthus then founded the Tetrapolis ("Four Cities") of Attica, a rural district. His son, Achaeus, went into...
- applied to the latter district in the time of Strabo, who calls it a tetrapolis, like Doris. Heracles, in conjunction with the Malians, is said to have...