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Bucephala is a genus of duck—Goldeneye (duck)
Goldeneye (duck)

Goldeneye are small tree-hole nesting northern hemisphere seaducks belonging to the genus Bucephala. Their plumage is black and white, and they eat fish, crustaceans and other marine life....
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Bucephala is the name of at least two Greek cities:

Bucephala, or Alexandria Bucephalus, was a city founded by Alexander the Great and named in honor of his horse, Bucephalus
Bucephalus

Bucephalus or Buchephalas was Alexander the Great's horse and the most famous actual horse of Classical antiquity. Ancient accounts state that Bucephalus died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum , Pakistan....
. Bucephala lay on the west bank of the Hydaspes river (at modern-day Jhelum in Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
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Bucephala Acra, located on a promontory near Troezen
Troezen

Troezen , modern: Troizina or Trizina is a small town in the northeastern Peloponnese, located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana....
in the Argolid
Argolis

Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....
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