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In Albania

Albania

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Saint Apollonia
Saint Apollonia

Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria, Egypt during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius....
, of Alexandria
Apollonia Kotero
Apollonia Kotero

Apollonia Kotero is an United States swimsuit model, actress and singer of Mexican and Italian people descent. She joined Prince 's entourage after the departure of Vanity , as lead in the film Purple Rain and as lead singer of recording group Apollonia 6....
, musician & actress

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In Albania

Albania

Apollonia, Illyria
Apollonia, Illyria

File:Apollonia odeon.jpgFile:EpirusEduMap.jpgA city of the ancient world , known as Apollonia , was located on the right bank of the Vjos?; its ruins are situated in the Fier region, near the village of Pojan ....

In Bulgaria

Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
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Apollonia, Thrace now Sozopol
Sozopol

Sozopol is an ancient town and seaside resort located 15 kilometre south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Bulgaria....

In Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
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Apollonia (Epirus)
Apollonia (Epirus)

Apollonia was an ancient town on the frontiers of Epirus, south of Epidamnus.References...
, an inland city in Epirus
Epirus

The name Epirus, from the Greek language "?pe????" meaning continent may refer to:...
, founded by Corinth
Corinth

Corinth, or Korinth Corinth is now the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Corinthia. The city is surrounded by the coastal townlets of Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site....
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Apollonia (Mygdonia)
Apollonia (Mygdonia)

For other uses, see ApolloniaApollonia was a town of Mygdonia in Macedonia, south of Lake Bolbe , and north of the Chalcidice, on the road from Thessalonica to Amphipolis, as we learn from the Acts of the Apostles and the Itineraries....
, an inland city near modern Apollonia, Thessaloniki
Apollonia, Thessaloniki

Apollonia is an ancient town in Greece Macedonia along the Via Egnatia, about midway between Thessalonica and Amphipolis. The modern town and municipality Apollonia is part of the Thessaloniki Prefecture and had 4.137 inhabitants as of 2001....
, visited by the apostle Paul
Apollonia (Pirgos Apollonias)
Apollonia (Pirgos Apollonias)

Apollonia was an ancient town of Thrace on the cape Pirgos Apollonias on the mainland of Greece opposite the island of Thasos, described by the Epitomizer of Strabo and by Pomponius Mela being west of the Nestus, and erroneously by Livy , as between Maroneia and Abdera, which is too far east....
, a coastal city near Thessaloniki
Apollonia (Chalcidice)
Apollonia (Chalcidice)

Apollonia was the ancient chief town of Chalcidice in Macedonia, situated north of Olynthus, and a little south of the Chalcidian mountains. That this Apollonia is a different place from Apollonia, Thessaloniki, appears from Xenophon, who describes the Chalcidian Apollonia as distant 10 or 12 miles from Olynthus....
, a city in the Chalcidice
Chalcidice

Chalkidiki, also Halkidiki or Chalcidice, less often Khalkidiki and rarely Chalkidice , is one of the prefectures of Greece....
Apollonia (Aetolia)
Apollonia (Aetolia)

Apollonia was an ancient town on the frontiers of Aetolia near Naupactus. Livyxxviii. 8.References...
, a town near to Naupactus
Naupactus

Naupactus or Nafpaktos , is the second largest town in the prefectures of Greece of Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece, situated on a bay on the north side of the straits of Lepanto....
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Apollonia (Acte)
Apollonia (Acte)

Apollonia was an ancient town in the peninsula of Acte, or Mount Athos in Macedonia, the inhabitants of which were called Macrobii. Pliny the Elder iv. 10. s. 17. ? 37....
, a city on Mount Athos
Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia , of northern Greece, called in Greek language Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain"....
Three cities in Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
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Apollonia (North coast of Crete)
Apollonia (North coast of Crete)

Apollonia was an ancient city of Crete, near Cnossus, the inhabitants of which were most treacherously treated by the Cydonia tae, who were their friends and allies....
, on the north coast
Apollonia (South coast of Crete)
Apollonia (South coast of Crete)

Apollonia , also called Eleuthera was an ancient city of Crete, on the south coast, of uncertain location.. William Smith states that the philosopher Diogenes Apolloniates was a native of the environs of Apollonia , although other scholars claim that the Apollonia in question was the Sozopol....
, on the south coast
Eleutherna
Eleutherna

At the site of the Crete city-state of Eleutherna, also called Apollonia, which lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno in Rethymno Prefecture, archaeologists have been excavating a town on a narrow northern spur of Mount Ida, Crete, the highest mountain in Crete; it flourished from the Greek Dark Ages?s early history until Byzantine times....
, inland city also called Apollonia

In Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
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Apollonia, later called Arsuf
Arsuf

Arsuf also known as Arsur or Apollonia, was an ancient city and fortress located in Israel, about 15 kilometres north of modern Tel Aviv, on a cliff above the Mediterranean Sea....
, near modern Herzliya
Herzliya

File:Location_herzliya.pngHerzliya is a List of Israeli cities of 84,200 residents located on the Israeli coastal plain of Israel. It is part of the Tel Aviv District....
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In Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
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Apollonia (Sicily)
Apollonia (Sicily)

Apollonia was an ancient city of Sicily, which, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, was situated in the neighborhood of Aluntium and Calacte. Cicero also mentions it and in conjunction with Haluntium, Capitium, and Engyon, in a manner that seems to imply that it was situated in the same part of Sicily with these cities; and we learn from D...
, a sea port town in Northern Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
, identified with Pollina
Pollina

Pollina is a comune in the Province of Palermo in the Italy region Sicily, located about 70 km east of Palermo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,102 and an area of 49.9 km?....
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In Libya

Libya

Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
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Apollonia, Cyrenaica
Apollonia, Cyrenaica

Apollonia in Cyrenaica was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean. It served as the harbour of Cyrene, 20 km to the southwest....

In Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
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Assos
Assos

Assos , is a small historically rich town in Behramkale, in the ?anakkale province, Turkey. Aristotle lived here and opened an Academy. The city was also visited by Paul of Tarsus....
, also called Apollonia
Apollonia (Mysia)
Apollonia (Mysia)

Apollonia was an ancient city of Mysia, Anatolia, situated on an eminence east of Pergamum, on the way to Sardis. It seems to have been near the borders of Mysia and Lydia....
, a town in Mysia
Mysia

Mysia was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor or Anatolia . It was located on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. It was bounded by Bithynia on the east, Phrygia on the southeast, Lydia on the south, Aeolis on the southwest, Troad on the west and by the Propontis on the north....
Apollonia, Pisidia
Sozopolis, Pisidia

Sozopolis in Pisidia, called Apollonia during Seleucid times, was an ancient town in the region of Pisidia, now in the Asian part of Turkey. It is not to be confused with the Sozopol in present-day Bulgaria....
(later called Sozopolis), Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
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Apollonia ad Rhyndacum
Apollonia ad Rhyndacum

Apollonia was an ancient town astride the Rhyndacus river. According to Strabo, it lay in Mysia , a description which misled some travellers and geographers, who fixed the site at Ulubad on the Rhyndacus....
, a town astride the river Rhyndacus in Bithynia
Bithynia

Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thrace Bosporus and the Euxine ....
next to the lake Apolloniatis
Apolloniatis

Apolloniatis may refer to several different places in the ancient world*A lake in Bithynia, now Abulliont Geul in Turkey*A region about Sittace, also called Sittacene...
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Interplanetary:

358 Apollonia
358 Apollonia

358 Apollonia is a large Asteroid belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 8, 1893 in Nice....
is a large Main belt
Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets....
asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
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Apollonia is an albedo feature on Mercury
List of albedo features on Mercury

This is a list of the albedo features of the planet Mercury as seen by early telescopic observation.Early telescopic observations of Mercury were based on the assumption that Mercury keeps one of its faces permanently turned toward the Sun, through the mechanism of tidal locking....
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Apollonia 6
Apollonia 6

Apollonia 6 was a 1980s female singing trio created by Prince as a continuation/succession of a previous group, Vanity 6....
was the musical group led by Apollonia Kotero
Apollonia Kotero

Apollonia Kotero is an United States swimsuit model, actress and singer of Mexican and Italian people descent. She joined Prince 's entourage after the departure of Vanity , as lead in the film Purple Rain and as lead singer of recording group Apollonia 6....
, taking over from Prince's defunct Vanity 6
Vanity 6

Vanity 6 was a female vocal trio assembled by Prince in the early 1980s. They released Vanity 6 , which blended the sounds of pop music, New Wave music, dance music, Rhythm and blues, and Funk music....
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Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone
Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone

Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather . She is portrayed by Simonetta Stefanelli in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather....
was a fictional character in Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo

Mario Gianluigi Puzo was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into The Godfather with Francis Ford Coppola....
's The Godfather
The Godfather (novel)

The Godfather is a crime novel written by United States author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It details the story of a fictitious Sicily Mafia family based in New York City and headed by Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia....
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Unreleased song by Team Sleep
Team Sleep

Team Sleep is an American experimental rock alternative rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno, better known for fronting the Sacramento-based band Deftones....
A European association of international artistic exchanges (see : European Institutions in Strasbourg#other bodies
European Institutions in Strasbourg

There are a range of European Institutions in Strasbourg , the oldest of which dates back to 1815. In all, there are more than twenty different institutions based in the Alsace city....
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