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This is a list of notable archaeological site
Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved , and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record...
s sorted by country. For one sorted by continent and time period, see the list of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age
List of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age

This list of archaeological sites is sorted by continent and then by the age of the site. For one sorted by country, see the list of archaeological sites sorted by country....
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Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....































India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....








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Agrigento

Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragras , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece....
Agrigentum Asti
Asti

Asti is a city and comune of c. 75,000 inhabitants located in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy, about 55 kilometres east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River....
Calabria
Calabria

Calabria , is a Regions of Italy in Southern Italy Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea....
Campania
Campania

Campania is a Regions of Italy of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy, its total area of 13,595 km? makes it the most densely populated region in the country....
Caulonia
Caulonia

Caulonia is a comune in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italy region Calabria, located about 60 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 70 km northeast of Reggio Calabria....
Croton
Crotone

Crotone is a city in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Ionian Sea. Founded circa 710 BC as the Achaean colony of Croton , it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to Crotone....
Erice
Erice

Erice is a historic town in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy.Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo san Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on Sicily's north-western coast, p...
Forum Romanum Forlì - Monte Poggiolo
Forlì

Forl? is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forl?, of the Renaissance humanism historian Flavio Biondo, of the famous physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni....
Giardini Naxos Herculaneum
Herculaneum

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman Empire town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. Its ruins can be found at the co-ordinates , in the Italy region of Campania....
Isernia La Pineta
Isernia

Isernia is a town and comune in the central Italy region of Molise, and the capital of Province of Isernia....
Lazio Locri
Locri

Locri is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. The name derives from the ancient Greek "Locris" ....
Morgantina
Morgantina

The archaeological site of Morgantina is located in east central Sicily, at 37? 26.035' N 14? 28.928' E. It is sixty kilometres from the coast of the Ionian Sea, in the province of Enna....
Mozia
Mozia

Mozia is a small island, formerly known as Motia and San Pantaleo in the Trapani province, in Sicily, Italy, lies in the Stagnone Lagoon, and is generally included as a part of the comune of Marsala....
Ostia Antica
Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica is a large archeological site that was the harbour city of ancient Rome, which is approximately 30 kilometers northeast of the site....
Piemonte Pompeii
Pompeii

Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Ancient Rome town-city near modern Naples in the Italy region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei....
Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
Rhegion Sardinia
List of archaeological and artistic sites of Sardinia

This is a list of archaeological and artistic sites of Sardinia, Italy:*Acquafredda near Siliqua, Italy, castle, 13th century*Aiodda near Nurallao, Giants' Tomb...
Segesta
Segesta

Segesta was the political center of the Elymian people. It is placed in the northwestern part of Sicily, in the province of Trapani and in the comune of Calatafimi-Segesta....
Selinunte
Selinunte

Selinunte is an ancient Greece archaeology site situated on the south coast of Sicily between the valleys of the rivers Belice and Modione in the province of Trapani....
Sibari 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....
Siracusa Suasa
Suasa

Suasa was an ancient Rome town in what is now the comune of Castelleone di Suasa, Marche, Italy. It is located in the Pian Volpello locality, in the valley of the Cesano River....
Taormina
Taormina

Taormina is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania....
Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
Tusculum
Tusculum

Tusculum is the classical Roman name of a major ancient Alban Hills city, in the Latium region of Italy....
Trapani
Trapani

Trapani is a city on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands....
Villa Romana del Casale
Villa Romana del Casale

Villa Romana del Casale is a Roman villa located about 5 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy. It contains the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman Empire mosaics in the world....
Veleia
Veleia (Italy)

Veleia, an ancient town of Aemilia, Italy, situated about 20 miles south of Placentia. It is mentioned by Pliny among the towns of the eighth region, though the Veleiates were Ligurians by race....
, Piacenza
Piacenza

Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza....


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Iwajuku

The site of a major archeological discovery, Iwajuku provided evidence of habitation of Japan by humans before 10,000 BC. To date, these are the oldest record of human dwellings from Japan's past....
Sannai-Maruyama
Sannai-Maruyama site

is a Jomon archaeological site in Sannai, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. In 1992, Aomori Prefecture tried to establish new baseball stadium, but as the result the remains were found....
Yoshinogari
Yoshinogari site

Yoshinogari is the name of a large and complex Yayoi archaeological site in Yoshinogari, Saga and Kanzaki, Saga in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan....


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'Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located in North-Eastern Jordan, on the outskirts of Amman. It dates as far back as 7250 BC, and was inhabited until 5000 BC....
Jerash
Jerash

Jerash, the Gerasa of Antiquity, is the capital and largest city of Jerash Governorate , which is situated in the north of Jordan, 48 km north of the capital Amman towards Syria....
Madaba mosaic map Petra
Petra

Petra is an Archaeology site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a Depression among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah , the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba....


istan

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Issyk Kul

Issyk Kul is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the List of lakes by volume and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea....


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Anjar, Lebanon

Anjar , also known as Haoush Mousa , is a town of Lebanon located in the Bekaa Valley. The population is about 2,400, consisting almost entirely of Armenians in Lebanon....
Baalbek
Baalbek

Baalbek is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 1,170 m , situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman Empire period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire....
Byblos
Byblos

Byblos is the Greek language name of the Phoenician city Gebal . It is a Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of present-day Lebanon under the current Arabic language name of Jbeil and was also referred to as Gibelet during the Crusades....


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Ohrid

Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the List of cities in the Republic of Macedonia by population in the country....
Stobi
Stobi

Stobi was an ancient town of Paionia, later conquered by Macedon, and later still incorporated into the Ancient Rome province of Macedonia Salutaris ....
Heraclea Lyncestis
Heraclea Lyncestis

Heraclea Lyncestis also spelled Herakleia Lynkestis, was an Ancient Greece city in the north-western region of the ancient kingdom of Macedon....
Vardarski Rid
Vardarski Rid

Vardarski Rid is an archaeological site in Gevgelija, Republic of Macedonia of a town dating from Early classical antiquity. Archaeological excavations reveal the architectural layout of the monumental stoa, an acropolis, and other segments from the settlement....
Astibo
Astibo

Astibo is an early Roman citizen settlement which is located in the modern city of ?tip in the Republic of Macedonia....
Bargala
Bargala

Bargala was a fortified town constructed between the4th and 6th century A.D., a period spanning Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium. It is located 20 km northeast of the modern city of ?tip, Republic of Macedonia on the lower slopes of the Plachkovica mountain....
Scupi
Scupi

Scupi it is an archaeological site located between Zajcev Rid and the Vardar River, several kilometers from the center of Skopje, in Republic of Macedonia....
Vinicko Kale
Vinicko Kale

Vinicko Kale is an ancient ruin located near Vinica , Republic of Macedonia. It is located on the left side of the Grdecka River, on a hill about 400 meters above sea level....
Veluška Tumba
Veluška Tumba

Velu?ka Tumba is an ancient living area from Neolithic times located near the village of Porodin, Republic of Macedonia, close to Bitola. Velu?ka Tumba was discovered in 1978....
Tumba (Skopje)
Tumba (Skopje)

Tumba is an ancient Neolithic settlement located in the north-eastern part of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, near Stadium of FC Madzari Solidarnost....
Trebeništa
Trebeništa

Trebeni?ta is an ancient Illyrian necropolis dating from the Iron Age around the 7th century B.C. It is located a near the town of Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia....
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This is a list of notable archaeological site
Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved , and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record...
s sorted by country. For one sorted by continent and time period, see the list of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age
List of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age

This list of archaeological sites is sorted by continent and then by the age of the site. For one sorted by country, see the list of archaeological sites sorted by country....
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....

  • Buddhas of Bamyan
  • Haji Piyada
    Haji Piyada

    The Haji Piyada Mosque is a mosque in the Balkh Province province of northern Afghanistan. Built in in the ninth century A.D., it is thought to be the earliest Islamic building in the country....
     mosque in Balkh
    Balkh

    Balkh , also known as Bactra, was once a major world city but was destroyed entirely by the Mongols. Today it is a small town in the Balkh Province, northern Afghanistan, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some 74 km south of the Amu Darya, the Oxus River of antiquity, of which a tributary form...


Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....


National Archeological Parks of Albania:

  • Amatia
  • Antigonea
  • Apollonia
    Apollonia

    Apollonia may be:People:*Saint Apollonia, of Alexandria*Apollonia Kotero, musician & actressPlaces::In Albania::In Bulgaria::In Greece::* Apollonia , an inland city in Epirus, founded by Corinth.:* Apollonia , an inland city near modern Apollonia, Thessaloniki, visited by the apostle Paul:* Apollonia , a coastal city near Th...
  • Butrint
    Butrint

    Butrint is an Ancient Greek city and an archaeology site in Sarand? District, Albania, some 14 kilometres south of Sarand? and close to the Greece border....
  • Bylis
  • Finiq
    Finiq

    Finiqi is a small village in Southern Albania located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the Greece border. It is part of Delvin? District and Vlor? County....
  • Lezhë
    Lezhë

    Lezh? is a city in northwest Albania, in the District of Lezh? and County of Lezh? with the same name. It is located at 41.79?N 19.65?E and has a population of about 17,000 ....
  • Orikum
    Orikum

    Orikum is a municipality in the Vlor? District, Vlor? County, southwestern Albania. It was named after the ancient city Oricum, which was located 4 km west of modern Orikum....
  • Shkodër
    Shkodër

    Shkod?r is a city located on Lake Shkod?r in northwestern Albania in the District of Shkod?r, of which it is the capital. It is one of the oldest and most historic towns in Albania, as well as an important cultural and economic centre....


Other archeological sites:

  • Berat
    Berat

    Berat is a town located in south-central Albania. It has a population of around 45,500 people . It is the capital of both the District of Berat and the larger County of Berat....
     (ancient city of Antipatrea)
  • Ancient city of Dimal
  • Durrës
    Durrës

    File:Teuta, Illyrian Queen of Durres.jpgDurr?s is the second largest city of Albania. It is the most ancient and one of the most economically important cities of Albania....
     (ancient city of Epidamnos,Dyrrachium)


Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....

  • Aramus
    Aramus

    Aramus may refer to:* Limpkin , a bird*Aramus, Armenia, a town...
  • Zvartnots
    Zvartnots

    Zvartnots is a town located in the Armenian province of Armavir , about 10 km west from Yerevan, approximately half way to Echmiadzin.Zvartnots Airport is located near the town Zvartnots, as is the Zvartnots Cathedral....


Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....

  • Lake Mungo
    Lake Mungo

    Lake Mungo is a dry lake in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 760 km due west of Sydney and 90 km north-east of Mildura, Victoria....
  • Cuddie Springs
    Cuddie Springs

    Cuddie Springs is a notable archaeology and paleontology site in the semi-arid zone of central northern New South Wales, Australia . Cuddie Springs is an open site, with the fossil deposits preserved in a claypan on the floor of an ancient ephemeral lake....
  • Murujuga
    Murujuga

    Murujuga , is a peninsula often known as Burrup Peninsula and prior to that as Dampier Peninsula, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia of Western Australia, adjoining the Dampier Archipelago and near the town of Dampier, Western Australia....
     or Burrup Peninsula
  • Ngarrabullgan
    Ngarrabullgan

    Ngarrabullgan , officially named 'Mount Mulligan' by the State: is a large tabletop mountain located 100 kilometers west of Cairns in the north of Queensland ....


Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....

  • Burgstallkogel (Sulm valley)
    Burgstallkogel (Sulm valley)

    The Burgstallkogel is a hill situated near the confluence of the Sulm and the Saggau river valleys in Southern Styria in Austria, about 30 km south of Graz between Gleinst?tten and Kleinklein....
  • Sandberg Celtic city
    Sandberg Celtic city

    The Sandberg, a hill ridge in the northwestern part of the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria approximately 70 km north of Vienna, has recently emerged as one of the potentially most important archaeological sites of the middle La T?ne culture in Central Europe....
  • Großmugl
    Großmugl

    Gro?mugl is a town in the district of Korneuburg in Lower Austria in Austria. It is situated about 15 km north of Stockerau within the Weinviertel in Lower Austria....
  • Carnuntum
    Carnuntum

    Carnuntum was an important Roman Empire army camp in what is now Austria. It belonged originally to Noricum province, but after the 1st century was part of Pannonia....
  • Vindobona
    Vindobona

    Vindobona was originally a Celtic settlement, and later a Ancient Rome military camp on the site of the modern city of Vienna in Austria. Around 15 B.C., the kingdom of Noricum was included in the Roman Empire....
  • Iuvavum
  • Flavia Solva
    Flavia Solva

    Flavia Solva was a municipium in the ancient Roman province of Noricum. It was situated on the western banks of the Mura river, close to the modern city of Leibnitz in the southern parts of the Austrian province of Styria....
  • Virunum


Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....

  • Gobustan
  • Gobustan State Reserve
    Gobustan State Reserve

    Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Qobustan, Baku, about 40 miles southwest of the centre of Baku was established in 1966 when the region was declared as a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region....


Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....

  • Veldwezelt-Hezerwater
    Veldwezelt-Hezerwater

    Veldwezelt-Hezerwater is a Palaeolithic archaeological site in Belgium....


Belize
Belize

Belize , formerly British Honduras, is a country in Central America. Once part of the Maya civilization, and very briefly the Spanish Empire, it was most recently affiliated with the British Empire, prior to gaining its independence in 1981....

  • Altun Ha
    Altun Ha

    Altun Ha is the name given ruins of an ancient Maya civilization city in Belize, located in the Belize District about 30 miles north of Belize City and about 6 miles west of the shore of the Caribbean Sea....
  • Baking Pot
  • Cahal Pech
    Cahal Pech

    Cahal Pech is a Maya civilization site located near the Town of San Ignacio Cayo in the Cayo District of Belize. The site was a palacio home for an elite Maya family, and though most major construction dates to the Classic period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back as far as 900 BC during the Early Middle Formativ...
  • Caracol
    Caracol

    Caracol or El Caracol is the name given to a large ancient Maya civilization archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District, Belize of Belize....
  • Cerros
    Cerros

    Cerros is a Maya civilization archaeological site in northern Belize that reached its apogee during the Mesoamerican Mesoamerican chronology. At its nader, it held a population of approximately 1,089 people....
  • Colha
  • Lamanai
    Lamanai

    Lamanai is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and was once a considerably sized city of the Maya civilization, located in the north of Belize, in Orange Walk District....
  • Lubaantun
    Lubaantun

    Lubaantun is a pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in southern Belize, Central America. Lubaantun is in Belize's Toledo District, about 42 kilometres northwest of Punta Gorda, Belize, and approximately 3.2 kilometres from the village of San Pedro Columbia, at at an elevation of 61 metres feet above mean sea level....
  • Northern River Lagoon
  • Nim Li Punit
    Nim Li Punit

    Nim Li Punit, is a Maya Classic Period site in the Toledo District of the nation of Belize, located 40 kilometres north of the town of Punta Gorda, Belize, at 16? 19' N, 88? 47' 60W....
  • Uxbenka
    Uxbenka

    Uxbenka is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site located in Belize's southernmost districts of Belize of Toledo District. An urban settlement of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, it is the earliest-known Maya polity in the southern Belizean lowlands, with evidence of occupation dating to the Early Classic period of Mesoamerica...
  • Xunantunich
    Xunantunich

    Xunantunich is a Maya civilization archaeology site in western Belize, about 80 miles west of Belize City , in the Cayo District. Xunantunich is located atop a ridge above the Mopan River, within sight of the Guatemala border....


Bolivia
Bolivia

The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....

  • Chanapata
  • Chiripa
    Chiripa

    The archeological site of Chiripa Pata is located in the Lake Titicaca region in Bolivia. It lays 15 km east of the city Chiripa and quite close to Pequery....
  • Tiahuanaco also known as Tiwanaku
    Tiwanaku

    Tiwanaku is an important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. Tiwanaku is recognized by Andean scholars as one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire, flourishing as the ritual and administrative capital of a major state power for approximately five hundred years....


Botswana
Botswana

The Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland Protectorate, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 September 1966....

  • Tsodilo
    Tsodilo

    Tsodilo is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in northwestern Botswana. It was inscribed in 2001 due to its unique religious and spiritual significance to local peoples, as well as its unique record of human settlement over many millennia....


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....

  • Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
    Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

    The Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak is a vaulted brickwork "beehive" tomb near the town of Kazanlak in central Bulgaria.The tomb is part of a large Thracians necropolis....
  • Perperikon
    Perperikon

    The ancient Thrace city of Perperikon is located in the Eastern Rhodopes, 15 km northeast of the present-day town of Kardzhali, Bulgaria, on a 470 m high rocky hill, which is thought to have been a sacred place....
  • Varna Necropolis
    Varna Necropolis

    The Varna Necropolis is a burial site in the western industrial zone of Varna , Bulgaria, internationally considered one of the key archaeological sites in world prehistory....
  • Madara Rider
    Madara Rider

    The Madara Rider or Madara Horseman is an early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara ....
  • Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari
    Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

    The Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari is situated 2,5 kilometre southwest of the village of Sveshtari, Bulgaria, Razgrad Province, which is located 42 km northeast of Razgrad, in the northeast of Bulgaria....


Cambodia
Cambodia

The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh....

  • Angkor
    Angkor

    Angkor is a name conventionally applied to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth century A.D....


Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

  • L'Anse aux Meadows
    L'Anse aux Meadows

    L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canada Provinces of Canada of Newfoundland and Labrador....
  • Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
    Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

    Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a buffalo jump located where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains begin to rise from the prairie 18 km northwest of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada on highway 785....
  • Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
    Turtle Mountain Provincial Park

    Turtle Mountain Provincial Park is a provincial park located in the southwestern portion of the Canada province of Manitoba. The Park is known for its bike trails and is one of the most popular parks in Manitoba....
  • Whiteshell Provincial Park
    Whiteshell Provincial Park

    Whiteshell Provincial Park is a 2,729 km2 park centrally located in Canada in the province of Manitoba. It can be found in the southeast of the province along the Manitoba-Ontario border, approximately 130 km east of Winnipeg....
  • Xá:ytem


Czech Republic
Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....

  • Mladec
    Mladec

    Mladec is a village 20 km NW of Olomouc in central Moravia, Czech Republic. The Mladec caves are located near Mladec.Mladec is an archaeological site with the oldest directly dated remains of modern human in Europe....
     (Mladec) - Homo 31.000 years ago
  • Dolni Vestonice settlement


Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....

  • Easter Island
    Easter Island

    Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile....
    : Rano Raraku
    Rano Raraku

    Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on the lower slopes of Terevaka in the Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island....
    , Orongo
    Orongo

    ?Orongo is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui . The first half of the ceremonial village's 53 stone masonry houses was investigated and restored in 1974 by American archaeologist William MulloyIn 1976 Mulloy assisted by Chilean archaeologists Claudio Cristino and Patricia Vargas completed the restorat...
     Village, etc.
  • Monte Verde
    Monte Verde

    Monte Verde is an archaeological site in south-central Chile, which has been dated to 14,500 years before present. It pre-dates the earliest known Clovis culture site of Clovis, New Mexico, by 1000 years, contradicting the previously accepted "Clovis model" which holds that settlement of the Americas began after 13,500 years before present....
  • Fell Cave, Pali Aike and other sites in Patagonia
    Patagonia

    Patagonia is a geographic region containing the southernmost portion of South America. Located in Argentina and Chile, it comprises the Andes mountains to the west and south, and plateaux and low plains to the east....
  • Pukaras: Turi
    Turi

    The Turi are a Pashtun tribe on the Kohat District border of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Turis inhabit the Kurram Valley, which adjoins the western end of the Miranzai Valley....
    , Quitor, Camiña
    Camiña

    Cami?a is a Chilean Communes of Chile and village in El Tamarugal Province, Tarapac? Region. According to the 2002 census, the commune population was 1,275 and has an area of 2,200.2 km?....
    , Nama, etc.
  • Village
    Village

    A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
    s: Caserones, Tulor, etc.
  • Cemeteries: Faldas del Morro, Camarones 14, Cuchipuy, Chacayes, Bypass Temuco, etc.


China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

  • An Yang
    An Yang

    An Yang may refer to:*Anyang, city in Henan, China*An Yang , Chinese pair skater...
  • Banpo, a Neolithic
    Neolithic

    The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
     site
  • Bashidang
    Bashidang

    Bashidang was the site of a Neolithic Yangtze River settlement in Lixian County, Hunan, China. Bashidang is considered to be a very late site of the Pengtoushan culture....
  • Caoxieshan
  • Chang'an
    Chang'an

    Chang'an is an ancient Capital of more than ten Dynasties in Chinese history in Chinese history. Chang'an literally means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese....
    , an ancient capital
  • Chengtoushan
    Chengtoushan

    Chengtoushan was a Neolithic settlement located on the northwestern edge of Dongting Lake in Lixian County, Changde, Hunan, China.The site contains the earliest dated rice field in China ....
  • Jiahu
    Jiahu

    Jiahu was the site of a Neolithic Yellow River settlement based in the central plains of ancient China, modern Wuyang, Henan Province. Archaeologists consider the site to be one of the earliest examples of the Peiligang culture....
  • Peking Man
    Peking Man

    Peking Man , also called Sinanthropus pekinensis , is an example of Homo erectus. A group of fossil specimens was discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian near Beijing , China....
     site at Zhoukoudian
    Zhoukoudian

    Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien is a cave near Beijing in China. It has yielded many archaeology discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the gigantic hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris....
    , near Beijing
    Beijing

    is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
  • Sanxingdui
    Sanxingdui

    Sanxingdui is the name of an archaeological site in China, now believed to be the site of an History of China city. The previously unknown Bronze Age culture was re-discovered in 1987 when archaeologists excavated remarkable Artifact , that radiocarbon dating dated as being from the 12th-11th centuries BCE....
  • Terracotta Army
    Terracotta Army

    The Terracotta Army are the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China. The terracotta figures, dating from 210 BC, were discovered in 1974 by several local farmers near Xi'an, Shanxi province, China near the Mausouleum of the First Qin Emperor....
    , near Xian
  • Tomb of the King of Southern Yue, Guangzhou
    Museum of the Tomb of the King of Southern Yue in Western Han Dynasty

    The Museum of the Tomb of the King of Southern Yue in Western Han Dynasty is a museum in Guangzhou, southern China.The tomb of King Wen of Nanyue was discovered in 1983, 20 meters under Elephant Hill in Guangzhou on a construction site for a hotel, and has been excavated....
  • Yinxu
    Yinxu

    Yinxu is the ruins of the last capital of China Shang Dynasty . The capital served 255 years for 12 kings in 8 generations.Rediscovered in 1899 it is one of the oldest and largest archeaological sites in China and is one of the Historical capitals of China and a UNESCO World Heritage Site....


Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....

  • San Agustín archeological park
    San Agustín, Huila

    San Agust?n is a town and municipality in the southern Colombia Departments of Colombia of Huila Department. The town is located 227 km away from the capital of the Department, Neiva....
  • National Archeological Park of Tierradentro
    Tierradentro

    Tierradentro is a National archeological park in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Inza, Cauca, Departments of Colombia of Cauca Department....
  • Ciudad Perdida
    Ciudad Perdida

    Ciudad Perdida is the archaeological site of an ancient city in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. It is believed to have been founded about 800 A.D., some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu....
    , in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
    Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

    The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated mountain range apart from the Andes chain that runs through Colombia. Reaching an altitude of 5,700 metres above sea level just 42 km from the Caribbean coast, the Sierra Nevada is the world's highest coastal range....
  • Malagana
    Malagana

    The Malagana Treasure of Colombia, South America, is the group of gold and other artifacts plundered in 1992 in a mob "gold rush" after an ancient cemetery near Hacienda Malagana in western Colombia, was discovered in 1992....
  • Bogotá
    Bogotá

    Bogot? ? officially named Bogot?, D.C. , formerly called Santa Fe de Bogot? ? is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with 6,776,009 inhabitants ....
     early animal domestication site, and Muisca
    Muisca

    Muisca refers to a nation of the Chibcha that formed the Muisca Confederation encountered by the Spanish at the time of the conquest of what is now part of central Colombia in 1537....
  • La Pitia
  • Monsu
  • Puerto Hormiga


Costa Rica
Costa Rica

Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

  • Guayabo
    Guayabo

    Guayabo is an archeological site located in Turrialba, Costa Rica. The site is of great archeological and cultural importance even though a very small portion of the city has actually been uncovered and studied....


Cyprus
Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....

  • Castro
    Castro

    'People:':'Fidel Castro', Former President of Cuba :'Ra?l Castro', Current President of Cuba :'Jason Castro', 4th place finalist on the seventh season of popular reality show 'American IdolA place:'...
  • Salamis
    Salamis, Cyprus

    Salamis was an ancient city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta....


Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....

  • Lindholm Høje
    Lindholm Høje

    Lindholm H?je is a major Viking burial site and former settlement situated to the north of and overlooking the city of Aalborg. The first major excavation of 700 graves began in 1952, although earlier excavations, such as that in 1889, had been conducted....


Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....

  • Agua Blanco
  • Cerro Narrio
  • El Encanto
    El Encanto

    El Encanto is a town and municipality in the Amazonas Department, Colombia. It is located in the mouth of the Caraparan? River, tributary of the Putumayo River ....
  • Machallla
  • Real Alto
  • Valdivia
    Valdivia Culture

    The Valdivia Culture is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas. It emerged from the earlier Las Vegas culture and thrived on the Santa Elena, Ecuador peninsula near the modern-day town of Valdivia, Ecuador, Ecuador between 3500 BC and 1800 BC....


Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....

  • Abu Simbel
    Abu Simbel

    Abu Simbel is an archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 290 km southwest of Aswan....
  • Abydos
    Abydos, Egypt

    Abydos , one of the most ancient cities of Upper and Lower Egypt, is about 11 km west of the Nile at latitude 26? 10' N. The Egyptian name of both the eighth Nome of Upper Egypt and its capital city was Abdju, technically, 3bdw as in the hieroglyphs shown to the right, the hill of the symbol or reliquary, in which...
  • Alexandria
    Alexandria

    Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
  • Amarna
    Amarna

    The site of Amarna is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya Governorate, some 58 km south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and 402 km north of Luxor....
  • Colossi of Memnon
    Colossi of Memnon

    The 'Colossi of Memnon' are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the past 3400 years they have stood in the Thebes, Egypt necropolis, across the Nile from the modern city of Luxor....
  • Deir al-Madinah
    Deir al-Madinah

    Deir el-Madinah is an ancient Egyptian village which was home to the artisans who built the temples and tombs ordered by the Pharaohs and other dignitaries in the Valley of the Kings during the New Kingdom period ...
  • Deir el-Bahri
    Deir el-Bahri

    Deir el-Bahri is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt.In 1997, 58 tourists and 4 Egyptians were massacred here by Islamic terrorists from Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya in what has become to be known as The 'Luxor massacre'....
  • Edfu
    Edfu

    Edfu is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately sixty thousand people....
  • Esna
    Esna

    The Egyptian city of Esna , known to the ancient Egyptians as Egyptian language: Iunyt or Ta-senet; Greek language: or or ; Latin: Lato, is located on the west bank of the Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, in the modern Qena Governorate....
  • Giza
    Giza

    in the 2006 national census, while the governate had 6,272,571 at the same census. Its large population makes it the 2nd largest suburb in the world, tied with Incheon, Korea and Quezon City, Philippines, second only to Yokohama, Japan....
  • Heliopolis
    Heliopolis (ancient)

    Heliopolis , meaning sun-city, was one of the most ancient cities of Egypt, and capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian Nome . Its name also refers to an unrelated Heliopolis of Cairo, also known as ??? ???????, Masr al-gidedah ....
  • Karnak Temple
  • Kom Ombo Temple
  • Luxor Temple
    Luxor Temple

    Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile in the city today known as Luxor and was founded in 1400 BC....
  • Oxyrhynchus
    Oxyrhynchus

    Oxyrhynchus is a city in Upper Egypt, located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo, in the governorate of Al Minya Governorate. It is also an archaeological site, considered one of the most important ever discovered....
  • Philae
    Philae

    Philae or Pilak or P'aaleq or Arabic language: Anas el Wagud, is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt....
  • Ramesseum
    Ramesseum

    The Ramesseum is the Temples of a Million years of Pharaoh Ramesses II . It is located in the Thebes, Egypt necropolis in Upper Egypt, across the Nile from the modern city of Luxor....
  • Tanis
    Tanis, Egypt

    Tanis , the Greek language name of ancient Djanet , is a city in the north-eastern Nile delta of ancient Egypt. It lies on the Tanitic branch of the Nile ....
  • Valley of the Kings
    Valley of the Kings

    The Valley of the Kings is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th century BC to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaoh and powerful nobles of the Conventional Egyptian chronology#New Kingdom ....


El Salvador
El Salvador

El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....

  • Joya de Cerén
    Joya de Cerén

    Joya de Cer?n is an archaeological site in El Salvador featuring a pre-Columbian Maya civilization farming village preserved remarkably intact under layers of volcanic ash....
  • San Andrés
    San Andrés, El Salvador

    San Andr?s is a pre-Hispanic site of El Salvador, whose occupation began around the year 900 BC as an agricultural town in the valley of Zapotit?n in the department of La Libertad Department....
  • Tazumal
    Tazumal

    Tazumal is a Pre-Columbian Maya civilization archeological site in Chalchuapa, El Salvador. Tazumal means, "the place where the victims were burned," in K'iche' language....


Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....

  • Pulli settlement
    Pulli settlement

    Pulli settlement, located on the right bank of the P?rnu River, is the first known human settlement in Estonia. It is located two kilometers from the town of Sindi, which is 14 kilometers from P?rnu....
  • Rebala
    Rebala

    About RebalaRebala is beautiful village located in Buchireddipalem mandal of Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, India. This village is located about 11KM from Nellore city and 2KM from buchi reddi palem on the Nellore - Mumbai high-way between Nellore and Buchireddipalem....


Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....

  • Astuvansalmi
    Astuvansalmi

    The Astuvansalmi rock paintings are located in Finland at the shores of the lake Y?vesi, which is a part of the large lake Saimaa. The rock paintings are the largest found in the whole of Scandinavia....
  • Ukonkivi
    Ukonkivi

    Ukonkivi, , is located in the Ukonsaari island on the Finnish lake Lake Inari. The area of the lake is called Ukonselk?. Ukonkivi was used by the ancient Sami as a holy sacrificial place....
  • Wolf Cave
    Wolf Cave

    Wolf Cave is a crack in the Pyh?vuori mountain in Kristinestad , near the Karijoki municipality in Finland. The upper part of the crack has been packed with soil, forming a cave....


France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....

  • Chauvet Cave
    Chauvet Cave

    The Chauvet Cave or Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave is located at N 44? 21' and E 4? 29' 24", near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, in the Ard?che d?partement, in southern France....
  • Lascaux
    Lascaux

    Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its prehistory cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, Dordogne, in the Dordogne d?partement in France....
  • Glanum
    Glanum

    Glanum was a Ancient Rome city in Gallia Narbonensis? Provence in southern France? sited on the flanks of the Alpilles, a range of mountains in today's Bouches-du-Rhone d?partment....
  • Glozel
    Glozel

    Glozel is a hamlet in central France, part of the commune in France of Ferri?res-sur-Sichon, Mayet de Montagne, Allier, some 17 km from Vichy....


Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
 

  • Armazi
    Armazi

    Armazi was, according to the medieval Georgia chronicles, the supreme god in a paganism pantheon of ancient Georgians of Kartli .Georgian literary tradition credits the first king of Kartli, Parnavaz I of Iberia , with the raising of the idol Armazi ? reputedly named after him ? on a mountain at his capital, and the construction of a Arm...
  • Dmanisi
    Dmanisi

    Dmanisi is a townlet and archaeological site in Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation?s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera....
  • Nokalakevi
    Nokalakevi

    Nokalakevi is a village and archaeological site in Georgia ; particularly, in Senaki district of Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti region....
  • Vani
    Vani

    Vani is a town in Imereti region of western Georgia , at the Sulori river , 41 km southwest from the regional capital Kutaisi. The town with the population of 4,600 is an administrative center of the Vani raioni comprising also 43 neighbouring villages ....


Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....

  • Bilzingsleben
  • Hirschlanden
    Warrior of Hirschlanden

    The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a statue of a nude phallic symbol warrior made of sandstone, the oldest known Iron Age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the Alps....
  • Königsaue
    Königsaue

    The town of K?nigsaue in the district Aschersleben-Sta?furt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany was destroyed in the course of opencast lignite mining in 1964....
  • Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen
    Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen

    Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen is an open-air museum on Lake Constance in Uhldingen-M?hlhofen consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses from the Neolithic Stone Age and Bronze Age....
  • Wasserburg


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....

  • Aegina
    Aegina

    Aegina is one of the Greek islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 17 miles from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island....
     (Temple of Aphaea, Temple of Zeus), Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  • Aigeira
    Aigeira

    Aigeira or Aegira , also Egira, Eyira, Aiyira is a community located about 500 m SW of the Gulf of Corinth in the northeastern part of the prefecture of Achaea....
    , Achaea Prefecture
    Achaea

    Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....
  • Aigosthena
    Aigosthena

    Aigosthena , also Egosthena, was an ancient Ancient Greece fortified city of Attica 19 km NW of the ancient city of Megara to which it belonged....
    , West Attica Prefecture
    West Attica

    West Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Elefsina....
  • Akraefnion, Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Akrotiri
    Akrotiri (Santorini)

    Akrotiri is the name of an excavation site of a Greek Bronze Age settlement on the Greece island of Santorini, associated with the Minoan civilization due to close similarities in artifact and fresco styles....
     at Santorini
    Santorini

    Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcano islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast from Greece's mainland....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Alifeira
    Alifeira

    Alifeira or Alifira is a municipality in southcentral Elis Prefecture. The seat of the municipality is in the village of Kallithea . It is north of the Greece Interstate 76, between Krestena and Andritsaina....
    , Ilia Prefecture
  • Amphiareion of Oropos
    Amphiareion of Oropos

    The Amphiareion of Kalamos , situated in the hills 6 km southeast of the fortified port of Oropos, was a sanctuary dedicated in the late fifth century BCE to the hero Amphiaraus, where pilgrims went to seek oracular responses and healing....
    , East Attica Prefecture
    East Attica

    East Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Pallini, and the prefecture covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
  • Amphipolis
    Amphipolis

    Amphipolis was an Ancient Greece Greece Polis in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
    , Serres Prefecture
    Serres Prefecture

    Serres prefecture is a prefecture located in Central Macedonia, Greece. The total population reaches just over 200,000. The capital is Serres....
  • Amykles
    Amykles

    Amykles or Amikles is a village and an archaeological site located southwest of Sparta. The ancient city was founded by Amyclas, the son of Lacedaemon....
    , Laconia Prefecture
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
  • Anafi
    Anafi

    Anafi is a Greece island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades. In 2001, it had a population of 273 inhabitants. Its land area is 40.370 km?....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Anemospilia
    Anemospilia

    Anemospilia is the archaeology of an ancient Minoan civilization temple on Crete....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Anthidona
    Anthidona

    Anthidona is a Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Euboea, Greece. The population was 6,104 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and the land area is 137.266 km?....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Antissa
    Antissa

    Antissa was a city of the island Lesbos Island , near to Cape Sigrium, the western point of Lesbos. The place had a harbour. The ruins found by Richard Pococke at Calas Limneonas, a little NE....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Apollonia
    Apollonia

    Apollonia may be:People:*Saint Apollonia, of Alexandria*Apollonia Kotero, musician & actressPlaces::In Albania::In Bulgaria::In Greece::* Apollonia , an inland city in Epirus, founded by Corinth.:* Apollonia , an inland city near modern Apollonia, Thessaloniki, visited by the apostle Paul:* Apollonia , a coastal city near Th...
     at Milos
    Milos

    Milos , formerly known as ?????Melos, and before the Athens massacre and recolonization in 416 BC as ????? – Malos, is a volcanic Greece island in the Sea of Crete, just south of the Aegean Sea....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Apollonia
    Apollonia

    Apollonia may be:People:*Saint Apollonia, of Alexandria*Apollonia Kotero, musician & actressPlaces::In Albania::In Bulgaria::In Greece::* Apollonia , an inland city in Epirus, founded by Corinth.:* Apollonia , an inland city near modern Apollonia, Thessaloniki, visited by the apostle Paul:* Apollonia , a coastal city near Th...
     at Sifnos
    Sifnos

    Sifnos is an island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades island group in Greece. The main town on the island is known as Apollonia located near the center of the island....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Apollonia
    Apollonia

    Apollonia may be:People:*Saint Apollonia, of Alexandria*Apollonia Kotero, musician & actressPlaces::In Albania::In Bulgaria::In Greece::* Apollonia , an inland city in Epirus, founded by Corinth.:* Apollonia , an inland city near modern Apollonia, Thessaloniki, visited by the apostle Paul:* Apollonia , a coastal city near Th...
     or 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....
     of 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? ....
    , Rethymno Prefecture
    Rethymno Prefecture

    Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....
  • Apsalos, Pella Prefecture
    Pella Prefecture

    Pella is one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital town is Edessa, Greece. The prefecture was created out of the then gigantic Thessaloniki Prefecture in 1947 and is named after the ancient city Pella....
  • Aptera
    Aptera

    Aptera may refer to:* Aptera, Greece, the city in Crete* Aptera Motors, an automobile company producing the Aptera 2e...
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Archanes
    Archanes

    Archanes is a municipality in the Heraklion Prefecture, Crete, Greece. Population 4,548 . It is also the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan civilization human settlement in central Crete....
     - Vathypetro
    Vathypetro

    Vathypetro is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan civilization villa on Crete....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Argos
    Argos

    Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour, named for Nauplius ....
    , Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Arisbe
    Arisbe

    Arisbe may refer to:* Another name for Batea , a person in Greek Mythology* An early wife of King Priam of Troy, also from Greek Mythology....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Armeni, Crete, Minoan Tombs, Rethymno Prefecture
    Rethymno Prefecture

    Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....
  • Arta
    Arta, Greece

    Arta is a city with a rich history in north-western Greece, capital of the Arta Prefecture which is part of the Epirus province. The city was known in ancient times as Ambracia ....
     - Ambracia
    Ambracia

    Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia , was an ancient Corinth, Greece colony, situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf in Greece, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos River , in the midst of a fertile wooded plain....
    , Arta Prefecture
    Arta Prefecture

    Arta is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city of Arta, Greece. It is located north of the Ambracian Gulf....
  • Asclepieion
    Asclepieion

    In ancient Greece, an asclepieion was a healing temple, sacred to the god Asclepius.Starting around 300 BC, the cult of Asclepius became increasingly popular....
     of Kos
    Kos

    Kos or Cos is a Greece island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of G?kova. It measures 40 km by 8 km, and is only 4 km from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria....
    , Dodecanese Prefecture
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
  • Asea
    Asea, Greece

    Asea is a village in Arcadia, Greece, in the middle of the southern Peloponnese peninsula. Asea is about 20 km from both Tripoli and Megalopoli, and 190 km from Athens....
    , Arcadia Prefecture
  • Asini
    Asini

    Asini is a municipality in Argolis, Greece. Population 6,117 . The seat of the municipality is in Drepano....
    , Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
     (Odeon of Herodes Atticus
    Odeon of Herodes Atticus

    The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is a stone theatre structure located on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens. It was built in 161 AD by Herodes Atticus in memory of his wife, Aspasia Annia Regilla....
    , Acropolis
    Acropolis

    Acropolis literally means city on the edge . For purposes of defense, early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides....
    , Kerameikos, Pnyx
    Pnyx

    The Pnyx is a hill in central Athens, the capital of Greece. It is located less than one kilometre west of the Acropolis, Athens and 1.6km south-west of the centre of modern Athens, Syntagma Square....
    , Colonus
    Colonus

    }|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| Population percentage : || 15% Non-Greeks85% Greeks|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| Elevation: -lowest: -centre: -highest:||about 3540 mabout 45 m...
    , Areopagus
    Areopagus

    The Areopagus or Areios Pagos is the 'Hill of Ares', north-west of the Acropolis, Athens, which in classical times functioned as the high Court of Appeal for criminal and civil cases in Athens....
    , Kallimarmaro Stadium, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Temple of Hephaestus
    Temple of Hephaestus

    The Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane , also known as the Hephaisteion or Theseion , is the best preserved ancient Greek temple....
    , Ancient Agora of Athens
    Ancient Agora of Athens

    The Ancient Agora of Athens is the best-known example of agora, located in Ancient Athens, Greece....
    , Roman Forum
    Ancient Agora of Athens

    The Ancient Agora of Athens is the best-known example of agora, located in Ancient Athens, Greece....
    , Theatre of Dionysus
    Theatre of Dionysus

    The Theatre of Dionysus was a major Theatre of ancient Greece in ancient Greece, built at the foot of the Athens Acropolis, Athens and forming part of the temenos of "Dionysus Eleuthereus" ....
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  • Abdera, Thrace
    Abdera

    Abdera is the name of two ancient cities:* Abdera, Thrace* Abdera, SpainAlso:* Apache Abdera is an implementation of the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol...
    , Xanthi Prefecture
    Xanthi Prefecture

    Xanthi is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. Xanthi has no or only one province. The capital of the prefecture is also called Xanthi....
  • Avlida
    Avlida

    Avlida is a municipality in Euboea, Greece. The population was 8,300 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and the land area is 122.235 km?. The seat of the municipality is in Vathy....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Bassae
    Bassae

    Bassae or Bassai, Vassai or Vasses , meaning "little vale in the rocks", is an archaeological site in the northeastern part of Messinia Prefecture that was a part of Arcadia in ancient times....
    , Arcadia Prefecture
  • Brauron
    Brauron

    The sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron is an early sacred site on the eastern coast of Attica near the Aegean Sea in a small inlet. The inlet has silted up since ancient times, pushing the current shoreline farther from the site....
    , East Attica Prefecture
    East Attica

    East Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Pallini, and the prefecture covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
  • Calydon
    Calydon

    Calydon was an ancient Greece city in Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus. According to Greek mythology, the city took its name from its founder Calydon, son of Aetolus, son of Endymion....
    , Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
  • Cathrea at Kea
    Kea (island)

    Kea, , is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude and is considered quite picturesque....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Cassiope
    Corfu

    Corfu is a Greece list of islands of Greece in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and lies off the coast of Sarand?, Albania, from which it is separated by straits varying in breadth from 3 to 23 km , including one near ancient Butrint and a longer one west of Thesprotia....
    , Corfu Prefecture
    Corfu Prefecture

    Corfu is a prefectures of Greece of Greece. It consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian Sea....
  • Cassiope, Preveza Prefecture
    Preveza Prefecture

    Preveza is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city Preveza. It was one of the prefectures that had any provinces....
  • Chaeronea
    Chaeronea

    Chaeronea is a municipality in the Boeotia Prefecture, Greece. Population 2,218 . It is located in the Kifis?s River valley and NW of Thebes. It is the last city of historical Boiotia before the border with Phokis....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Chalcis
    Chalcis

    Chalcis or Chalkida, Halkida, Halkis or Chalkis , the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point....
    , Euboea Prefecture
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
  • Chios
    Chios

    Chios is the fifth largest of the Greece list of islands of Greece, situated in the Aegean Sea seven kilometres off the Turkey coast. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages....
     (Temple of Apollo at Phana), Chios Prefecture
    Chios Prefecture

    Chios Prefecture is a Greek political district, which provides two representatives to the Greek parliament. The Prefecture covers the islands of Chios, Psara, Antipsara and Oinousses....
  • Kleonae
    Cleonae (Argolis)

    Cleonae or Cleon? or Kleonai was an ancient city in Argolis, now in Corinthia, Greece. The site lies a few kilometers northwest of the small village of Agios Vasileios , Greece, between Corinth and Nemea....
    , Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Corfu
    Corfu

    Corfu is a Greece list of islands of Greece in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and lies off the coast of Sarand?, Albania, from which it is separated by straits varying in breadth from 3 to 23 km , including one near ancient Butrint and a longer one west of Thesprotia....
    , Corfu Prefecture
    Corfu Prefecture

    Corfu is a prefectures of Greece of Greece. It consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian Sea....
  • 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....
    , Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Cynosura at Salamis
    Salamis Island

    Salamis is the largest Greece island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. Due to its roughly crescent shape, the island is also locally known as Koulouri, after the koulouri....
    , Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  • Delium
    Delium

    Delium was a List of ancient Greek cities famous for its important temple dedicated to Apollo, similar to the one in Delos, thence its name. Founded by colonists of Tanagra, it was located approximately 2 km from Oropos and 8 km from Tanagra....
    , West Attica Prefecture
    West Attica

    West Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Elefsina....
  • Delphi
    Delphi

    Delphi is an archaeology site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. Delphi was the site of the Pythia, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, when it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python , a deity who lived there and protecte...
    , Phocis Prefecture
    Phocis

    Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....
  • Delos
    Delos

    The island of Delos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Dimini
    Dimini

    Dimini was a village nearby the city of Volos, in Thessaly , in the prefecture of Magnesia. It is also the seat of the municipality of Aisonia....
    , Magnesia Prefecture
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  • Dion
    Dion, Greece

    Dion is a municipality and village in the Prefecture of Pieria, Macedonia , Greece, best known for its museum and archaeological site. The Ancient city of Dion was a place of some importance, due to its location at the foot of Mount Olympus....
    , Pieria Prefecture
    Pieria

    Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
  • Dispelion, Kastoria Prefecture
    Kastoria Prefecture

    Kastoria Prefecture is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece of Greece. Its capital is the city of Kastoria, and its population was estimated at 51,934 inhabitants in the most recent census....
  • Dodona
    Dodona

    Dodona in Epirus in northwestern Greece, was a prehistoric oracle devoted to the Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia , but here called Dione and later, in historical times also to the Greek mythology God Zeus....
    , Ioannina Prefecture
    Ioannina Prefecture

    Ioannina is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the north-western peripheries of Greece of Epirus . Its capital is the city of Ioannina....
  • Dorio
    Dorio

    Dorio, or Dorion is a municipality and a village in the prefecture of Messinia, Greece. The population of the municipality is 4,069, and of the village alone 1,416 ....
    , Messenia Prefecture
    Messenia

    Messenia or Messinia is a prefectures of Greece in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Messenia is bounded on the east by Mount Taygetus, on the north by the Neda and the Arcadian Mountains, and on the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically on the west by the Ionian Sea, and on the south by the Gulf of Messenia....
  • Doriskos (Evros Delta), Evros Prefecture
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
  • Dreros
    Dreros

    Dreros near Neapolis in the district of Lassithi, Crete, is a Minoan civilization archaeological site, 16 km. northwest of Aghios Nikolaos. Known only by a chance remark of the ninth-century Byzantine grammarian Theognostus , archaeology of the site shows Dreros to have been initially colonised by mainland Greeks in the Archaic period in Gre...
     at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Dystos
    Dystos

    Dystos is the name of a lake, town and municipality in Euboea, Greece. The seat of the municipality is Krieza. The Dryopians were the first founders of Dystos in ancient times....
    , Euboea Prefecture
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
  • Eadion at Salamis
    Salamis Island

    Salamis is the largest Greece island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. Due to its roughly crescent shape, the island is also locally known as Koulouri, after the koulouri....
    , Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  • Eani
    Eani

    Eani is a municipality located in Kozani Prefecture, in the Geography of Greece Macedonia . The telephone code is +30 24680. Mr. George Karakoulas is the mayor....
    , Kozani Prefecture
    Kozani Prefecture

    Kozani is a prefectures of Greece, located in western Macedonia . Its capital is the city of Kozani....
  • Edessa, Greece
    Edessa

    Edessa may refer to:*Edessa, Greece*Edessa, Mesopotamia, now Sanliurfa, Turkey*County of Edessa, a crusader state*Osroene, an ancient kingdom and province of the Roman Empire...
    , Pella Prefecture
    Pella Prefecture

    Pella is one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital town is Edessa, Greece. The prefecture was created out of the then gigantic Thessaloniki Prefecture in 1947 and is named after the ancient city Pella....
  • Eleftherae, West Attica Prefecture
    West Attica

    West Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Elefsina....
  • Eleusina
    Eleusina

    Elefsina is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece about 20 km NW of Athens, Greece. It is located near the northernmost end of the Saronic Gulf and is the seat of administration of West Attica Prefectures of Greece....
    , West Attica Prefecture
    West Attica

    West Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Elefsina....
  • Elis
    Elis

    Elis, or Eleia is an ancient district, that corresponds with the modern Elis Prefecture. It is in southern Greece on the Peloponnesos peninsula, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea....
    , Ilia Prefecture
  • Elyros
    Elyros

    Elyros is an ancient city, located in southwest Crete, in Kefala Hill, near the village Rodovani and is presently unexcavated. Elyros was flourishing at least as early as the Greek Classical Period, e.g....
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Epitalion, Ilia Prefecture
  • Eresos
    Eresos

    Eresos and its twin beach village Skala Eressou are located in the southwest part of the Greek island of Lesbos. They are villages visited by considerable number of tourists....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Eretria
    Eretria

    Eretria was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea , south of Chalcis, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboian Gulf....
    , Euboea Prefecture
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
  • Eretria, Magnesia Prefecture
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  • Ephyra
    Kichyro

    Kichyros , later called Ephyra, was the capital of ancient Thesprotia built by the Pelasgian leader Thesprotos. Thucydides describes it as situated in the district Elean in Thesprotia, away from the sea....
    , Preveza Prefecture
    Preveza Prefecture

    Preveza is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city Preveza. It was one of the prefectures that had any provinces....
  • Epidaurus
    Epidaurus

    Epidaurus was a small city in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros , part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site....
     (A'Theatre, B'Theatre and Asclepieion Sites), Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Eupalinian aqueduct
    Eupalinian aqueduct

    The Tunnel of Eupalinos or Eupalinian aqueduct is a tunnel of 1,036 m length in Samos Island, Greece, built in the sixth century BC to serve as an aqueduct....
     of Samos, Samos Prefecture
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...
  • Evropos
    Evropos

    Evropos is a municipality in the Paionia Province of Kilkis Prefecture, Central Macedonia, Greece. Population 6,042 . In the Greek Struggle for Macedonia a lot of locals fought for Union with Greece....
    , Kilkis Prefecture
    Kilkis Prefecture

    Kilkis is a prefectures of Greece in Central Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the city of Kilkis....
  • Figaleia
    Figaleia

    Figaleia or Figalia is a municipality in the Elis Prefecture, Greece. Its 2001 population was 1,297 for the village, 1,674 for the municipal district and 2,499 for the municipality....
    , Ilia Prefecture
  • Fthiotides Thivae, Magnesia Prefecture
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  • Gioura
    Gioura

    Gioura is a Greece island and an abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonissos....
    , Alonnisos, Magnesia Prefecture
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  • Gomfoi
    Gomfoi

    Gomfoi or Gomfi is a municipality in the Trikala Prefecture, Greece. Population 5,154 . The seat of the municipality is in Lygaria. Gomfoi is located near Mouzaki....
    , Trikala Prefecture
    Trikala Prefecture

    Trikala is a prefectures of Greece in northwestern Thessaly, Greece ; its capital is the city of Trikala. The prefecture was created in 1881 and Karditsa Prefecture separated in 1947, and contains Kalampaka and Meteora, with monasteries above the rocky ledges....
  • Goniae at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Gortyn
    Gortyn

    Gortyn or Gortyna is an archaeological site on the Mediterranean island of Crete, 45 km away from the modern capital Heraklion. Gortyn, the Ancient Rome capital of Crete, was first inhabited around 3200 BC, and was a flourishing Minoan civilization town between 1600-1100 BC....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Gournia
    Gournia

    Gournia is the site of a Minoan civilization palacecomplex on the island of Crete, Greece, excavated in the early 20th century by theAmerican archaeologist, Harriet Boyd-Hawes....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Gynaecokastron, Kilkis Prefecture
    Kilkis Prefecture

    Kilkis is a prefectures of Greece in Central Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the city of Kilkis....
  • Gythium, Laconia Prefecture
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
  • Hellenikon
    Pyramid of Hellinikon

    The Pyramid of Hellinikon is located in the plain of Argolid, Greece. In the times of Pausanias , it was considered to be a tomb. Twentieth century researchers have suggested other possible uses....
    , Greek Pyramid
  • Hephaestia
    Lemnos

    Lemnos is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the prefecture of Greece of Lesbos Prefecture and has a considerable area, about 477 km?....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Hagia Triada
    Hagia triada

    Hagia Triada , "ahyuh treeahdhuh", is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan civilization settlement. Hagia Triada is situated on a prominent coastal ridge, with the Mesara Plain below....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Heraion of Argos
    Heraion of Argos

    The Heraion of Argos was the temple in the main sanctuary in the Argolid dedicated to Hera, whose epithet "Argive Hera" is familiar to readers of Homer....
    , Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Heraion of Samos, Samos Prefecture
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...
  • Ialysos
    Ialysos

    Ialysos , also known as Trianta, is the second-largest town on the island of Rhodes in Greece. It has a population of approximately 12,000, and is located 8 kilometres southwest of the Rhodes, Greece, the island's capital, on the island's northwestern coast....
     at Rhodes
    Rhodes

    Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
    , Dodecanese Prefecture
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
  • Ierapetra
    Ierapetra

    Ierapetra is a municipality and a town in the east of the Greece island of Crete, in the prefecture of Lasithi. The municipality has an area of 394.774 square kilometres and a population of 23,707 ....
     and Vasiliki
    Vasiliki, Lasithi

    Vasiliki is the name of a village in the municipality of Ierapetra, in the prefecture of Lasithi, on Crete, and the name of the nearby Minoan civilization archeological site....
     at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Isthmia
    Temple of Isthmia

    The Temple of Isthmia is an ancient Greek temple on the Isthmus of Corinth, about 16 kilometers east of ancient Corinth....
    , Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Ios, Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Itanos
    Itanos

    Itanos is a municipality in the Lasithi prefecture, Crete, Greece. Population 2,514 . The seat of the municipality is in Palaiokastro....
     and Palekastro
    Palekastro

    Pal?kastro is a small village at the east end of the mediterranean island Crete. It stands on historical soil. Already at Minoan civilization times the region was a centre of trade....
     at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Ithaca
    Ithaca

    Ithaca or Ithaka is an island in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 118 km? and three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent Communities and Municipalities of Greece of the prefecture of Kefalonia and Ithaka Prefecture, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia....
    , Kefalonia Prefecture
    Kefalonia

    The island of Kefalonia, also known as Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of 350 sq....
  • Ithomi
    Ithomi, Messenia

    Ithomi is a municipality in Messinia, Greece. Population 2,466 . The seat of the municipality is in Valira....
    , Messenia Prefecture
    Messenia

    Messenia or Messinia is a prefectures of Greece in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Messenia is bounded on the east by Mount Taygetus, on the north by the Neda and the Arcadian Mountains, and on the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically on the west by the Ionian Sea, and on the south by the Gulf of Messenia....
  • Kalymnos
    Kalymnos

    Kalymnos, is a Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese and is located to the west of the peninsula of Bodrum , between the islands of Kos and Leros : the latter is linked to it through a series of islets....
    , Dodecanese Prefecture
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
  • Kameiros
    Kameiros

    Kameiros was a city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, lying on a peninsula on the northwest coast of the island. It was the heart of an agricultural region, and constituted one of three city states on Rhodes....
     at Rhodes
    Rhodes

    Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
    , Dodecanese Prefecture
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
  • Kallithea (Temple of Ammon Zeus), Chalkidiki Prefecture
  • Kastron, Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Kaveirion
    Lemnos

    Lemnos is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the prefecture of Greece of Lesbos Prefecture and has a considerable area, about 477 km?....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Kechries
    Kechries

    Kechries is a community in the municipality of Corinth in Corinthia in Greece. It is located about 7 km southwest of Corinth and 7 km southeast of the Epidavros interchange with Greece Interstate 8A/E94, north of Galataki and Kato Almyri, east of Examilia, southeast of Xylokeriza, south of Kiras Vrysi and west/southwest of modern Isthmia....
    , Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Kionia at Tinos
    Tinos

    Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In ancient times, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa ....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Kleitor
    Kleitor

    Kleitor, also Klitor and Klitoras is a municipality in Arcadia, its 2001 population was 2,584 for the municipality. The seat of the municipality is in Mygdalia....
    , Achaea Prefecture
    Achaea

    Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....
  • Knossos
    Knossos

    Knossos , also known as the Knossos Palace is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Kolchis, Kilkis Prefecture
    Kilkis Prefecture

    Kilkis is a prefectures of Greece in Central Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the city of Kilkis....
  • Kos
    Kos

    Kos or Cos is a Greece island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of G?kova. It measures 40 km by 8 km, and is only 4 km from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria....
    , Dodecanese Prefecture
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
  • Kydonia at 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? ....
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Kyparissia
    Kyparissia

    Kyparissia or Kiparissia, rarely Cyparissia is a town of around 5.708 in western Messenia. The population has been steady. The town centre is situated on a road ...
    , Messenia Prefecture
    Messenia

    Messenia or Messinia is a prefectures of Greece in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Messenia is bounded on the east by Mount Taygetus, on the north by the Neda and the Arcadian Mountains, and on the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically on the west by the Ionian Sea, and on the south by the Gulf of Messenia....
  • Lakeria
    Larissa

    Larissa is a city and the capital of the Thessaly Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by rail with the port of Volos and with Thessaloniki and Athens....
    , Larissa Prefecture
    Larissa Prefecture

    Larissa is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, in the Peripheries of Greece of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. The prefecture was created in 1881 after the war when most of Thessaly became a part of Greece and the entire region in 1913 after the Balkan Wars....
  • Larissa
    Larissa

    Larissa is a city and the capital of the Thessaly Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by rail with the port of Volos and with Thessaloniki and Athens....
    , Larissa Prefecture
    Larissa Prefecture

    Larissa is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, in the Peripheries of Greece of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. The prefecture was created in 1881 after the war when most of Thessaly became a part of Greece and the entire region in 1913 after the Balkan Wars....
  • Lato
    Lato

    Lato was an ancient city of Crete, the ruins of which are located approximately 3 km from the small town of Kritsa. The city was built in a defensible position overlooking Mirabello Bay between two peaks, both of which became acropolises to the city....
     at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Lefkadia, Imathia Prefecture
    Imathia Prefecture

    Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
  • Lefkopetra, Imathia Prefecture
    Imathia Prefecture

    Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
  • Lentas
    Lentas

    Lentas or Levin , Lentas is a coastal village 75 km south of Heraklion, on the south coast of Crete in Greece. It belongs to the municipality of Agii Deka ....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Lepreum
    Lepreum

    Lepreum was an Ancient Greece city-state in Triphylia, a district of Elis . Located 40 Stadia away from the sea at the west end of Mount Minthi and based around two citadels and surrounded by an abundance of natural resources, Lepreum became an important city in the Classical Greece and Hellenistic period ages where it became the capital o...
    , Ilia Prefecture
  • Lerna
    Lerna

    In classical Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. Its site near the village Myloi, Argolis at the Argolic Gulf is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity when Heracles killed it, as Heracles#Se...
    , Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Lindos
    Lindos

    Lindos is a town and an Archeology site on the east coast of the Greece island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese in southeastern Aegean Sea Sea. It is about 55km south of the town of Rhodes and its fine beaches make it a popular tourist and holiday destination....
    , Rhodes Island
    Rhodes

    Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
    , Dodecanese Prefecture
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
  • Linos, Rhodope Prefecture
    Rhodope Prefecture

    Rhodope is one of the prefectures of Greece. It lies in central western Thrace within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The prefecture is named after the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the north and most of the eastern part of its territory....
  • Lissos
    Lissos

    Lissos is an ancient city in south-west Crete, in Agios Kirikos area, near the small village of Sougia, 70 km south of Chania.Lissos and Syia was the harbours of the city of Elyros, the most important ancient city of the area, located near the village Rodovani....
     at 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? ....
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Loukous, Herodes Atticus
    Herodes Atticus

    Herodes Atticus , also known by his Ancient Rome name, Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes Marathonios was a Greeks rhetorician, notable as a proponent of Philostratus' Second Sophistic, a pseudo-revival of classical Greek culture....
     Villa, Arcadia Prefecture
  • Lycaeon, Arcadia Prefecture
  • Lyctus
    Lyctus

    Lyctus or Lyttos , was one of the most considerable cities in ancient Crete, which appears in the Homer Catalog of ships....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Lycosura
    Lycosura

    Lycosura was a city of Arcadia reputed to be the most ancient city in Ancient Greece and, indeed, the world. Its current significance is chiefly associated with the sanctuary of the goddess Despoina, which contained a colossal sculptural group perhaps made by Damophon of Messene; this group comprises acrolithic-technique statues of Des...
    , Arcadia Prefecture
  • Macedonian Tombs at N.Nicomedia, Imathia Prefecture
    Imathia Prefecture

    Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
  • Magasa, Crete
    Magasa, Crete

    This article is about a Neolithic settlement in Crete; for the town in Italy, see Magasa, Italy.Magasa is a Neolithic human settlement on the eastern part of the island of Crete in present day Greece....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Malia, Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Mantineia
    Mantineia

    Mantineia was a city in ancient Arcadia in the central Peloponnese that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greece history. It is also a Communities and Municipalities of Greece in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village of Nestani ....
    , Arcadia Prefecture
  • Maroneia
    Maroneia

    Maroneia is a municipality in the Rhodope Prefecture, Greece. Population 7,644 . The seat of the municipality is in Xylagani.In legend, it was said to have been founded by Maron, a son of Dionysus, or even a companion of Osiris....
    , Rhodope Prefecture
    Rhodope Prefecture

    Rhodope is one of the prefectures of Greece. It lies in central western Thrace within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The prefecture is named after the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the north and most of the eastern part of its territory....
  • Matala and Kommos at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Megalopolis
    Megalopolis, Greece

    Ancient Megalopolis, or now Megal?poli is a town in the western part of the prefecture of Arcadia. "Megalopolis" is a Greek word for Great city....
    , Arcadia Prefecture
  • Megara
    Megara

    Megara is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis Island, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens....
    , West Attica Prefecture
    West Attica

    West Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Elefsina....
  • Menelaeon, Laconia Prefecture
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
  • Mesemvria, Evros Prefecture
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
  • Midea
    Midea, Greece

    Midea is a municipality in Argolis, Greece, with a population of 6,724 . The seat of the municipality is in Agia Triada, Argolis.Within the boundaries of the municipality are two significant archaeological sites dating to the bronze age or earlier....
     and Dendra
    Dendra

    Dendra is a prehistoric archaeological site situated outside the village with the same name belonging to the municipality of Midea, Greece in the Argolis, Greece....
    , Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Milos
    Milos

    Milos , formerly known as ?????Melos, and before the Athens massacre and recolonization in 416 BC as ????? – Malos, is a volcanic Greece island in the Sea of Crete, just south of the Aegean Sea....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Minia, Kefalonia Prefecture
    Kefalonia

    The island of Kefalonia, also known as Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of 350 sq....
  • Minoa at Amorgos
    Amorgos

    Amorgos is the easternmost island of the Greece Cyclades island group, and that lying closest to the neighboring Dodecanese island group. Along with several neighboring islets, the largest of which is Nikouria Island, it comprises the Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Amorgos, which has a land area of 126.346 km?, and a population...
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Mochlos
    Mochlos

    Mochlos is a modern island in the Gulf of Mirabello in eastern Crete, and the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan civilization settlement....
     at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Monemvasia
    Monemvasia

    Monemvassia , and known by the Franks as Malvasia , is a well-known medieval fortress with an adjacent town, located on a small peninsula off the east coast of the Peloponnese in the Greece Prefectures of Greece of Laconia....
    , Laconia Prefecture
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
  • 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"....
  • Mount Juktas
    Mount Juktas

    A mountain in north-central Crete, Mount Juktas was an important religious site for the Minoan Civilization. Located a few kilometers from the palaces of Knossos and Fourni and the "megaron" at Vathypetro, Mount Juktas was the site of an important peak sanctuary in the Minoan world....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Mycenae
    Mycenae

    Mycenae , is an archaeology in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north....
    , Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Myrina
    Myrina, Greece

    Myrina is a Communities and Municipalities of Greece on the island of Lemnos, in the Lesbos Prefecture, Greece. It covers the west coast of the island, and has a land area of 82.049 km?, about 17.2% of the island's area....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Myrtos Pyrgos at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Mystras
    Mystras

    Mystras was a fortified town in Morea , on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta. It lies approximately eight kilometres west of the modern town of Sparti ....
    , Laconia Prefecture
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
  • Mytilene
    Mytilene

    Mytilene is the Capital city of Lesbos Island, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, and capital of Lesbos Prefecture and the Northern Aegean region....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Naoussa, Imathia, Imathia Prefecture
    Imathia Prefecture

    Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
  • Nape (Temple of Apollo), Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • 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....
     and Makyneia, Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
  • Naxos (Ancient Naxos and Kouros Sites), Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Necromanteion
    Necromanteion

    The Nekromanteion is the ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades#Hades, the god of the Underworld and Persephone. It is situated on an archaeological site located in northwestern Greece overlooking the Acheron river....
     of Acheron
    Acheron

    The Acheron is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. It flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, Preveza, near Parga....
    , Preveza Prefecture
    Preveza Prefecture

    Preveza is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city Preveza. It was one of the prefectures that had any provinces....
  • Nemea
    Nemea

    For other articles related to Nemea see Nemea 'Nemea is an ancient site near the head of the valley of the River Elissos in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece....
    , Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Nicopolis
    Nicopolis

    Nicopolis or Actia Nicopolis was an ancient city of Epirus , founded 31 BC by Caesar Augustus in memory of his victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt at Actium....
    , Preveza Prefecture
    Preveza Prefecture

    Preveza is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city Preveza. It was one of the prefectures that had any provinces....
  • Nymphasia, Arcadia Prefecture
  • Oiniades
    Oiniades

    Oiniades, , is a municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. In 2001, it had a population of 10,227. The seat of the municipality is in Neochori Mesolongiou....
    , Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
  • Olous
    Olous

    Olous or Olus is an ancient, sunken city situated at the present day town of Elounda, Crete, Greece....
     at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Olympia
    Olympia, Greece

    Olympia , a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi....
    , Ilia Prefecture
  • Olynthus
    Olynthus

    Olynthus was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30–40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2.5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia from Potidaea....
    , Chalkidiki Prefecture
  • Orchomenus, Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Orchomenus
    Orchomenus (Arcadia)

    Orchomenus or Orchomenos or Orkhomenos was an ancient city of Arcadia, Greece, called by Thucydides the Arcadian Orchomenus , to distinguish it from the Orchomenus ....
    , Arcadia Prefecture
  • Pagasae
    Pagasae

    Pagasae was an ancient city in Magnesia , now a suburb of the modern city of Volos....
    , Magnesia Prefecture
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  • Palace of Nestor
    Nestor

    Nestor may refer to:*Nestor , the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology*Nestor *Nestor , a genus of parrots in ornithology...
    , Messenia Prefecture
    Messenia

    Messenia or Messinia is a prefectures of Greece in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Messenia is bounded on the east by Mount Taygetus, on the north by the Neda and the Arcadian Mountains, and on the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically on the west by the Ionian Sea, and on the south by the Gulf of Messenia....
  • Paleopolis
    Paleopolis, Andros

    Paleopolis is an ancient city on the west coast of Andros in the Cyclades Islands, Greece.From the archaic to the first Byzantine period, the epicenter of the island's activities is traced to the area of Paleopolis, which is found on the west side of the island, at a distance of 5 kilometers from Ipsili and 10 kilometers from Zagora, Andr...
     at Andros
    Andros

    Andros, or Andro , an island of the Greece archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Paleopolis at Kythira
    Kythira

    Kythira is an island of Greece, historically part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the eastern tip of the Peloponnesos peninsula. It is administratively part of the Piraeus Prefecture although geographically distant from the prefecture's population center....
    , Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  • Panormos at Mykonos
    Mykonos

    Mykonos is a Greek island and a mass tourist destination, renowned for its cosmopolitan character and its intense nightlife. The island is part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Siros, Paros and Naxos, Greece....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Paros
    Paros

    Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos , from which it is separated by a channel about wide....
     (Ancient Paros and Delion Sites), Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Patras
    Patras

    Patras is Greece's third largest urban centre and the capital of the prefecture of Achaea, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens....
    , Achaea Prefecture
    Achaea

    Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....
  • Pella
    Pella

    Pella was the Capital of the Ancient Greece Monarchy of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Greek Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions were made....
    , Pella Prefecture
    Pella Prefecture

    Pella is one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital town is Edessa, Greece. The prefecture was created out of the then gigantic Thessaloniki Prefecture in 1947 and is named after the ancient city Pella....
  • Perachora
    Perachora

    Perachora, also Perahora or Perakhora is an inland settlement in the Loutraki-Perachoras municipality of the Corinthia prefecture in the periphery of Peloponnese in Greece....
     (Heraion), Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Perrevia
    Elassona

    Elassona or Elasona , older form: Elassonas is a town and a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture in Greece. During antiquity Elassona was called "Oloosson" and was a town of the ancient "Perrhaebi", known today as Thessaly....
    , Leivadi
    Leivadi

    Leivadi, also Livadi, older forms: Leivadion, Livadio and Livadion may refer to two villages and one municipality that begin with this name:...
    , Larissa Prefecture
    Larissa Prefecture

    Larissa is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, in the Peripheries of Greece of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. The prefecture was created in 1881 after the war when most of Thessaly became a part of Greece and the entire region in 1913 after the Balkan Wars....
  • Petrae, Florina Prefecture
    Florina Prefecture

    Fl?rina Prefecture is one of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in northwestern Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia....
  • Phalasarna
    Phalasarna

    Phalasarna is an ancient Greece harbor town on the northwest coast of Crete. The currently visible remains of the city were built around 335 BCE and include several imposing sandstone towers and bastions, with hundreds of meters of fortification walls protecting the town and a closed harbor....
     at 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? ....
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Phanarion, Rhodope Prefecture
    Rhodope Prefecture

    Rhodope is one of the prefectures of Greece. It lies in central western Thrace within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The prefecture is named after the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the north and most of the eastern part of its territory....
  • Phanariion at Icaria
    Icaria

    Icaria, also spelled Ikaria , locally Nikaria or Nicaria , ancient name: Doliche , is a Greece island 10 nautical miles southwest of Samos Island....
    , Samos Prefecture
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...
  • Phaistos
    Phaistos

    Phaistos , also transliteration as Phaestos, Festos and Phaestus is an ancient city on the island of Crete. Phaistos was located in the south-central portion of the island, about 5.6 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Pharsala, Larissa Prefecture
    Larissa Prefecture

    Larissa is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, in the Peripheries of Greece of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. The prefecture was created in 1881 after the war when most of Thessaly became a part of Greece and the entire region in 1913 after the Balkan Wars....
  • Pheneos, Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Philippi
    Philippi

    Philippi was a city in eastern Macedonia , in northern ancient Greece, founded by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman Empire conquest....
    , Kavala Prefecture
    Kavala Prefecture

    Kavala prefecture is a prefecture in eastern Macedonia , Greece. Kavala serves as a capital city but mainly for Thrace because Greek Thrace had no permanent capital....
  • Phourni
    Phourni

    Phourni is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan civilization cemetery in Crete. Phourni is Greek for "oven" and the name of the hill on which the cemetery is located....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Piraeus
    Piraeus

    Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
    , Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  • Plevrona, Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
  • Poseidi, (Temple of Poseidon), Chalkidiki Prefecture
  • Poliochne
    Lemnos

    Lemnos is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the prefecture of Greece of Lesbos Prefecture and has a considerable area, about 477 km?....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Poikilassos
    Poikilassos

    Poikilassos is an ancient city in west Crete, at Trypiti cape, between Sougia and Agia Roumeli. Poikilasion was not an autonomous city, as it belongs to Elyros....
     at 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? ....
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Polyrrinia at 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? ....
     Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Lefkada
    Lefkada (city)

    Lefkada is a city and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in western Greece. It is the capital and main town of the island and prefecture of Lefkada....
    , Lefkada Prefecture
    Lefkada

    Lefkada, or Leucas is a Greece list of islands of Greece in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge....
  • Limnea - Amphilochia
    Amfilochia

    Amfilochia , also Amfilohia and Amphilochia is a town and a municipality in the northwestern part of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture in Greece, on the site of Ancient Greece Amfilochia....
    , Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
  • Plataies
    Plataies

    Plataies is a municipality in the Boeotia Prefecture, Greece. Population 4,715 . The seat of the municipality is in Kaparelli....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Poseidonia
    Poseidonia

    Poseidonia is a Communities and Municipalities of Greece on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece. The population was 3,006 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and the land area is 23.705 km?....
     and Chalandriani at Syros
    Syros

    Syros , or Siros or Syra is a Greece island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is located south-east of Athens. The island is home to the Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and Poseidonia....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Potidaea
    Potidaea

    Potidaea was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point in Pallene in the western point of Chalcidice in what was known as Thrace....
    , Chalkidiki Prefecture
  • Praessus at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
  • Pydna
    Pydna

    Pydna , also Pidna was a Greek city in ancient Macedon, the most important in Pieria. Modern Pydna is a rural municipality and coastal town in the northeastern part of the Prefecture of Pieria....
    , Pieria Prefecture
    Pieria

    Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
  • Pylos
    Pylos

    This article is about the Greek geographical feature and town. For the mythological figure see Pylus . For board game see Pylos .Pylos, or P?los , is a large bay and a town on the west coast of the Peloponnese, in the district of Messenia in southern Greece....
    , Messenia Prefecture
    Messenia

    Messenia or Messinia is a prefectures of Greece in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Messenia is bounded on the east by Mount Taygetus, on the north by the Neda and the Arcadian Mountains, and on the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically on the west by the Ionian Sea, and on the south by the Gulf of Messenia....
  • Pyrassos - Nea Anchialos
    Nea Anchialos

    Nea Anchialos is a town of Magnesia prefecture. It is situated southwest of Volos and north of Almyros. It is placed on the national highway Athens-Lamia -Volos....
    , Magnesia Prefecture
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  • Pyrgos, Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Pythagoreion of Samos
    Pythagoreion

    The remains of the Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a spectacular tunnel, the Tunnel of Eupalinos or Eupalinian aqueduct, along with the Heraion of Samos were jointly registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992....
    , Samos Prefecture
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...
  • Roman Aquaduct of Louros
    Louros

    Louros is a small town of 2,044 inhabitants and also the municipal seat of the Louros Communities and Municipalities of Greece, which has 5,270 people ....
    , Preveza Prefecture
    Preveza Prefecture

    Preveza is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city Preveza. It was one of the prefectures that had any provinces....
  • Rhamnus
    Rhamnus

    [Image:0029MAN-Themis.jpg|thumb|Themis, signed "Chairestratos", and dedicated by Megacles, ca 300BCE :For the genus of plants called Rhamnus, see Buckthorn....
    , East Attica Prefecture
    East Attica

    East Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Pallini, and the prefecture covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
  • Rhodes
    Rhodes

    Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
     (Ancient and Walled City of Rhodes), Dodecanese Prefecture
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
  • Syia
    Syia

    Syia is an ancient city in south-west Crete. It is located in Sougia village, 70 km south of Chania.Like Lissos, Syia was a capacious and safe harbour of Elyros....
     at 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? ....
     Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Tarra at 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? ....
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Tegea
    Tegea

    Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio.Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea....
    , Arcadia Prefecture
  • Thasos
    Thasos

    Thasos or Thassos is a Greece island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Western Thrace and the plain of the river Mesta River but geographically part of Macedonia ....
    , Kavala Prefecture
    Kavala Prefecture

    Kavala prefecture is a prefecture in eastern Macedonia , Greece. Kavala serves as a capital city but mainly for Thrace because Greek Thrace had no permanent capital....
  • Salonica
    Thessaloniki

    Thessaloniki , Thessalonica, or Salonica is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country in Greece and the capital of Macedonia , the nation's largest Regions of Greece....
    , Thessaloniki Prefecture
    Thessaloniki Prefecture

    Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....
  • Trikke
    Trikala

    Trikala is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece. It is the capital of the Trikala Prefecture, and is located NW of Athens, NW of Karditsa , Greece, E of Ioannina and Metsovo, S of Grevena, SW of Thessaloniki, and W of Larissa....
    , Trikala Prefecture
    Trikala Prefecture

    Trikala is a prefectures of Greece in northwestern Thessaly, Greece ; its capital is the city of Trikala. The prefecture was created in 1881 and Karditsa Prefecture separated in 1947, and contains Kalampaka and Meteora, with monasteries above the rocky ledges....
  • Tylissos
    Tylissos

    Tylisos is a modern town in central Crete , a Grecian island, and the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan civilization peak sanctuary and Minoan town....
     at 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? ....
    , Heraklion Prefecture
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
  • Samikon, Ilia Prefecture
  • Samothrace Temple complex
    Samothrace temple complex

    The Samothrace Temple Complex, known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods , Greek language Hieron ton Megalon Theon , is one of the principal Pan-Hellenic religious sanctuaries, located on the island of Samothrace within the larger Thrace....
     (Sanctuary of the Great Gods), Evros Prefecture
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
  • Serres
    Serres

    Serres is a city in Greece, seat of the Serres prefecture.Serres may also refer to:Places:* Serres, Germany, a part of Wiernsheim in Baden-W?rttemberg...
    , Serres Prefecture
    Serres Prefecture

    Serres prefecture is a prefecture located in Central Macedonia, Greece. The total population reaches just over 200,000. The capital is Serres....
  • Sesklo
    Sesklo

    Sesklo is an Aromanian village nearby the city of Volos, in Thessaly , in the prefecture of Magnesia. The Neolithic settlement was discovered at the end of the 19th century and the first excavations were made by Greek archaeologist, Christos Tsountas....
    , Magnesia Prefecture
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  • Sounion
    Sounion

    Headlands and bays Sounion is a promontory located 69 km SSE of Athens, at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula in Greece.Cape Sounion is noted as the site of ruins of the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon, the god of the sea in classical mythology....
    , East Attica Prefecture
    East Attica

    East Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Pallini, and the prefecture covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
  • Sparta
    Sparta

    Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars....
    , Laconia Prefecture
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
  • Spilia, Achaea Prefecture
    Achaea

    Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....
  • Skillounta
    Skillounta

    Skillounta is a municipality in the Elis Prefecture, Greece. It is named after Scillus, an ancient name for the area. Its seat of administration is in the town Krestena ....
     and Iardanos Tombs, Ilia Prefecture
  • Stymphalia, Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Sykyon
    Sicyon

    Sikyon was an ancient Greece city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth, Greece and Achaea. The king-list given by Pausanias comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus; the penultimate king of the list, Agamemnon, compels the submission of Sicyon to Mycenae; after him comes the Dorian usurper Pha...
    , Corinthia Prefecture
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
  • Sikinos
    Sikinos

    Sikinos is a Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios Island and Folegandros....
    , Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Stratos
    Stratos, Greece

    Stratos is a community and municipality in the prefecture of Aitoloakarnania or Etoloakarnania. Stratos is located on Greece Interstate 5/E55 and NW of Agrinio, N of Messolonghi and S of Amfilochia and Arta....
    , Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
  • Tanagra
    Tanagra

    Tanagra is a community north of Athens in Boeotia, not far from Thebes , that was noted in antiquity for its mass-produced mold-cast and fired terracotta figurines: see Tanagra figurine....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Thebes
    Thebes, Greece

    Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, Greece, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Thermopylae
    Thermopylae

    Thermopylae is a location in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in classical antiquity. It derives its name from several natural hot water springs....
    , Fthiotis Prefecture
  • Thermos
    Thermos (Aetolia)

    Thermos was an ancient Greece sanctuary, which served as the regular meeting place of the Aetolian League. Its focal point was the temple of Apollo Thermios famous for the archaic terra cotta Metope decorated with painted scenes from Greek mythology which are among the earliest examples of this art form in Greece....
    , Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
  • Thespiae
    Thespiae

    Thespiae was an ancient Greece polis in Boeotia. It stood on level ground commanded by the low range of hills which runs eastward from the foot of Mount Helicon to Thebes, Greece....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Thira, Cyclades Prefecture
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Thisbe, Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Tiryns
    Tiryns

    Tiryns is a Mycenaean civilization archaeological site in the Greece Prefectures of Greece of Argolis in the Peloponnese peninsula, some kilometres north of Nauplion....
    , Argolis Prefecture
    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....
  • Thermae of Traianopolis, Evros Prefecture
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
  • Toroni
    Toroni

    Toroni , ancient form: Torone is an ancient Greek city located in the southwest edge of Sithonia peninsula in Chalkidiki, 20 km after Neos Marmaras and 3 km before Porto Koufo , one of the largest physical harbours of Greece....
    , Chalkidiki Prefecture
  • 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....
     or Troizina at Peloponnese
    Peloponnese

    The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula and Regions of Greece in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth....
    , Piraeus Prefecture
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  • Trophoniou Oracle at Livadeia
    Livadeia

    Livadeia is a city in central Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture Boeotia Prefecture. Levadia is located 130 km NW of Athens, E of Nafpaktos, ESE of Amfissa and Desfina, SE of Lamia and west of Chalkida....
    , Boeotia Prefecture
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
  • Vapheion, Laconia Prefecture
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
  • Vanaena, Arcadia Prefecture
  • Vergina
    Vergina

    Vergina is a small town in northern Greece, located in the prefecture of Imathia Prefecture, Central Macedonia. The town became internationally famous in 1977, when the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos unearthed what he claimed was the burial site of the kings of Macedon, including the tomb of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander...
     (Macedonian Tombs complex), Imathia Prefecture
    Imathia Prefecture

    Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
  • Vistonis, Xanthi Prefecture
    Xanthi Prefecture

    Xanthi is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. Xanthi has no or only one province. The capital of the prefecture is also called Xanthi....
  • Vrissa
    Vrissa

    Vrissa is a village in the southern part of Lesbos Island island approximately 50 km from Mytilene. The village is named after the one of the two girls Agamemnon took from Lesvos during the ten-year Trojan War....
    , Lesbos Prefecture
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
  • Yrtakina
    Yrtakina

    Yrtakina was an ancient city in south-west Crete. The city was located between the existing villages Temenia and Papadiana, on Kastri hill, where the ruins of the city are situated....
     at 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? ....
    , Chania Prefecture
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
  • Zakros
    Zakros

    Zakros is a site on the eastern coast of the island of Crete containing ruins from the Minoan civilization. The site is often known to archaeologists as Zakro or Kato Zakro....
     at 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? ....
    , Lasithi Prefecture
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....


Guatemala
Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....

  • Aguateca
    Aguateca

    Aguateca is a Maya civilization site located in northern Guatemala's Petexbatun Basin, in the department of Pet?n Department. The first settlements at Aguateca date to the late Preclassic period , and the city was sacked and abandoned in the early 9th century....
  • Cancuen
    Cancuén

    File:Cancuenpanel3.jpgCancu?n is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Pasi?n River subregion of the central Maya lowlands in the present-day Guatemalan Department of El Pet?n....
  • Dos Pilas
    Dos Pilas

    Dos Pilas is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in what is now the department of Pet?n , Guatemala. It dates to the Mesoamerican chronology, being founded by an offshoot of the dynasty of the great city of Tikal in 629 A.D....
  • Gumarcaj
    Gumarcaj

    Gumarcaj, is an archeological site in El Quich? department of Guatemala. Gumarcaj is also known as Utatl?n, the Nahuatl language name for the city....
  • Iximché
    Iximche

    Iximch? is a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala. The site's name dervives from the Mayan name of the breadnut tree ....
  • Ixkun
    Ixkun

    Ixkun is a pre-Columbian Maya civilization List of Maya sites, situated in the Pet?n Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands. It lies to the northwest of the site of Popt?n, in the modern-day department of Pet?n , Guatemala....
  • Kaminaljuyu
    Kaminaljuyu

    Kaminaljuyu is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization. Kaminaljuyu has been described as one of the greatest of all archaeological sites in the New World by Michael D....
  • Machaquila
    Machaquila

    Machaquil? refers to a ruined city of the Maya civilization in what is now the El Peten department of Guatemala. There is also a small Guatemalan village several kilometers from the site that bears the name Machaquil?....
  • El Mirador
    El Mirador

    El Mirador is a large pre-Columbian Maya civilizationn settlement, located in the north of the modern Departments of Guatemala of El Pet?n, Guatemala....
  • Mixco Viejo
    Mixco Viejo

    Mixco Viejo is an archeology site in the north east of the Chimaltenango department of Guatemala, some 50 km to the north of Guatemala City and 4km from the junction of the rivers Pixcaya and Montagua....
  • Motul de San José
    Motul de San José

    Motul de San Jos? is an ancient Maya civilization site located just north of Lake Pet?n Itz? in the Pet?n Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands....
  • Nakbe
    Nakbe

    Nakbe is one of the largest early Maya civilization archaeological sites, rivaled by El Mirador. Nakbe is located in the The Mirador Basin, in El Pet?n region of Guatemala, approximately 13 kilometers south of the Largest Maya city of El Mirador....
  • Nakum
    Nakum

    Nakum is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and a former ceremonial center and city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the northeastern portion of the Pet?n Basin region, in the modern-day Guatemalan department of Pet?n ....
  • Naranjo
    Naranjo

    Naranjo is an ancient city of the Maya civilization in the Pet?n Basin region of the central Maya lowlands. It is located in the present-day departments of Guatemala of Pet?n , Guatemala about 10 km west of the border with Belize....
  • El Perú (Maya site)
  • Quiriguá
    Quiriguá

    Quirigu? is an ancient Maya civilization archaeological site in the Departments of Guatemala of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. It is a medium sized site along the lower Motagua River, with the ceremonial center about from the north bank of the river....
  • Río Azul
    Río Azul

    Rio Azul is a site of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization in what is now Guatemala.Sak H? Witznal , its real name, is located 80 km north east of Tikal....
  • Seibal
    Seibal

    Seibal, known as El Ceibal in Spanish, is a Mesoamerican chronology archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the northern Pet?n department of Guatemala....
  • Takalik Abaj
    Takalik Abaj

    Tak'alik A'baj is a pre-Columbian archaeology site in Guatemala, it was formerly known as Abaj Takalik. It is one of several Mesoamerican sites with both Olmec and Maya civilization features....
  • Tikal
    Tikal

    Tikal is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Pet?n Basin in what is now modern-day northern Guatemala....
  • Topoxté
    Topoxte

    Topoxte is a pre-Columbian Maya civilization archaeological site in the Pet?n Basin in northern Guatemala with a long occupational history dating as far back as the Mesoamerican chronology....
  • Uaxactún
    Uaxactun

    Uaxactun is an ancient ruin of the Maya civilization, located in the Pet?n Basin region of the Maya lowlands, in the present-day Departments of Guatemala of Pet?n , Guatemala....
  • Ujuxte
    Ujuxte

    The site of Ujuxte is the largest Mesoamerican chronology site to be discovered on Guatemala Pacific coast. The site includes approximately two hundred earthen mounds spread over some 200 hectares of farmland....
  • Yaxha
    Yaxha

    Yaxha is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Pet?n Basin region, and a former ceremonial center and city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization....
  • Zaculeu
    Zaculeu

    Zaculeu or Saqulew is a Pre-Columbian archeological site in the highlands of southwestern Guatemala, a short distance outside of the city of Huehuetenango....
  • El Zotz
    El Zotz

    El Zotz is a Mesoamerican archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Pet?n Basin region around 30 km west of the major center of Tikal....


Honduras
Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....

  • Copán
    Copán

    The Pre-Columbian city today known as Cop?n is a locale in western Honduras, in the Cop?n Department, near to the Guatemalan border. It is the site of a major Maya civilization kingdom of the Classic era ....


Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....

  • Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb
  • Stone Circles (Hong Kong)
    Stone Circles (Hong Kong)

    Stone Circles are expected to be found in Hong Kong as Hong Kong is rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts....
  • Wong Tei Tung
    Wong Tei Tung

    Wong Tei Tung is an area of Palaeolithic settlement in Hong Kong. It is located near Sham Chung , beside Three Fathoms Cove of Sai Kung Peninsula....
     (Sam Chung), Late Palaeolithic


Hungary


  • Aquincum
    Aquincum

    The ancient city of Aquincum was situated on the North-Eastern borders of the Pannonia province within the Roman Empire. The ruins of the city can be found today in Budapest, capital city of Hungary....
  • Üllo5
    Üllo5

    ?llo5 is an archeological site in Hungary, near the village of ?llo, next to Budapest. It was excavated between 2002 and 2006 when the southeastern section of the M0 motorway, the bypass road of Budapest, was built....


India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....


  • Acheulean
    Acheulean

    Acheulean is the name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with prehistoric hominins during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia and Europe....
     site of Chirki-on-Pravara
  • Adichanallur
    Adichanallur

    Adichanallur is an archaeological site near Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, India. The town is known locally as Adityanallur, and has been the site of a number of very important archeological digs....
  • Arikamedu
    Arikamedu

    Arikamedu is an archaeological site near Pondicherry, southern India, where Mortimer Wheeler conducted its best-known excavation in the 1940s....
  • Birhana
  • Dholavira
    Dholavira

    Dholavira, an ancient metropolis, and locally known as Kotada Timba Prachin Mahanagar Dholavira, is one of the largest and most prominent archaeological sites in India, belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization....
     The Ancient Metropolitan City.
  • Jaugada
    Jaugada

    Jaugada, ruined fortress, Dist. Ganjam/Orissa/India Jaugada lies 35km north-west of Berampur and 160km south-west of Bhubaneshwar by car. Once a provincial Mauryan fortified capital of the newly conquered province of Kalinga, Jaugada is famed by its version of the monumental stone-cut edicts in Prakrit of the Mauryan emperor Asoka....
     Mauryan fort site
  • Kharligarh
    Kharligarh

    Kharligarh, ruined settlement with defences, , Dist. Balangir, Orissa/India.A key site for the early history of western Orissa is Kharligarh 1.5km east of Bhuampada, near the confluence of the Rahul and the Tel....
     Ancient ruined fort
  • Kulpahar
    Kulpahar

    Kulpahar is a city in Mahoba district in the Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. It is a historical town in the Bundelkhand region....
     site of 10th century remains
  • Lothal
    Lothal

    Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Located in the modern state of Gujarat and dating from 24th century BC, it is one of India's most important archaeology site that dates from that era....
  • Rewari
    Rewari

    Rewari is a city and a municipal council in Rewari District in the Indian States and territories of India of Haryana. It is located in south-west Haryana around 85 km from the Indian capital New Delhi....
     site of a large hoard of copper artefacts
  • Sisupalgarh
    Sisupalgarh

    Sisupalgarh or Sishupalgarh are ruined fortification in Khurda District in Orissa, India. It is the largest and best preserved early historic fortification in India....
     Mauryan fort site
  • Konark Sun Temple
    Konark Sun Temple

    Konark Sun Temple is a 13th-century Sun Temple , at Konark, in Orissa.It was built in red sandstone and black granite by King Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty....
  • Ajanta Caves
  • Ellora Caves
    Ellora Caves

    Ellora is an archaeological site, 30 km from the city of Aurangabad, Maharashtra in the Indian States and territories of India of Maharashtra built by the Rashtrakuta Dynasty....
  • Badami
    Badami

    Badami , formerly known as Vatapi, is a taluk in the Bagalkot District of Karnataka, India. It was the regal capital of the Badami Chalukyas from 540 to 757 AD....
  • Aihole
    Aihole

    Aihole is a temple complex in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It is a very popular tourist spot in north Karnataka. Aihole is to the east of Pattadakal, along the Malaprabha River, while Badami is to the west of both....


Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....

  • Borobudur
    Borobudur

    Borobudur is a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddhist art....
  • Sangiran
    Sangiran

    Sangiran is an archaeological excavation site at the island of Java in Indonesia. The area comprises about 48 km? and is located in Central Java, about 15 kilometers north of Surakarta in the Bengawan Solo River valley....


Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....

  • Apadana
    Apadana

    The Apadana is a collection of biographical stories found in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. It is thought by most scholars to be a late addition to the canon, composed during the 1st and 2nd century BCE....
  • Bisitun
  • Darband
    Darband

    Darband may refer to:* Darband, NWFP, A Union Council of Mansehra District, Pakistan* Darband district, a town or district in Tajikistan's Region of Republican Subordination...
     Cave
  • Do-Ashkaft Cave
  • Choqa Zanbil
    Choqa Zanbil

    Chogha Zanbil is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan province of Iran.It is one of the few extant ziggurats outside of Mesopotamia....
  • Ecbatana
    Ecbatana

    Ecbatana is supposed to be the capital of Astyages , which was taken by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great in the sixth year of Nabonidus ....
  • Ganj Par
    Ganj Par

    The Lower Paleolithic site of Ganj Par is located at Gilan province, at north of Iran. It was discovered by a team of archaeologists from the Center for Paleolithic Research of the National Museum of Iran in 2002....
  • Ganj Dareh
    Ganj Dareh

    Ganj Dareh is a Neolithic settlement in Iranian Kurdistan, it is located in the east of Kermanshah. The site dates back to ca. 10,000 years ago and yielded the earliest evidence for goat domestication in the world....
  • Gorgan
    Gorgan

    Gorgan is the capital of the Golestan Province, Iran. It is approximately 400 km from Tehran. It had an estimated population of 241,177 in 2005....
  • Jiroft civilization
    Jiroft civilization

    The Jiroft culture is a postulated Early Bronze Age archaeological culture located in what is now Iran's Sistan and Kerman Provinces. The hypothesis is based on a collection of artifacts that were confiscated in Iran and accepted by many to have derived from the Jiroft area in south central Iran, reported by online Iranian news services b...
  • Jondi Shapur
  • Ka'ba-i Zartosht
  • Kashafrud
    Kashafrud

    Kashafrud Basin is an archaeological site in Iran, known for the Lower Palaeolithic artifacts collected there; these are the oldest-known evidence for human occupation of Iran.,...
  • Kunji
    Kunji

    Kunji is a town in the Bi? of southeastern Angola. It is the home town of UNITA President Isa?as Samakuva. It is also home to a considerable amount of unexploded land mines....
     Cave
  • Mar Tarik
  • Naqsh-e Rustam
    Naqsh-e Rustam

    Naqsh-e Rustam is an archaeological site located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars province, Iran. Naqsh-e Rustam lies a few hundred meters from Naqsh-e Rajab....
  • Pasargadae
    Pasargadae

    'Pasargadae' was a city in ancient Iran, and is today an archaeological site and one of Iran's five UNESCO World Heritage Sites. According to the Elamite cuneiform of the Persepolis fortification tablets the name was rendered as Batrakata?, and the name in current usage derives from a Greek Language transliteration of an Old Persian P?th...
  • Persepolis
    Persepolis

    Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid dynasty. Persepolis is situated northeast of the modern city of Shiraz, Iran in the Fars Province of modern Iran....
  • Qaleh Bozi Caves
  • Soltaniyeh
    Soltaniyeh

    Soltaniyeh situated in the Zanjan Province of Iran, some 240 km to the north-west from Tehran, used to be the capital of Ilkhanid rulers of Persia in the 14th century....
  • Susa
    Susa

    Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian Empire and Parthian empires of Iran, located about 250 km east of the Tigris River.The modern town of Shush, Iran is located at the site of ancient Susa....
  • Takht-i-Suleiman
    Takht-i-Suleiman

    For the similarly named locations see Takht-e-Sulaiman in Balochistan , and Sulayman Mountain near Osh, Kyrgyzstan.Takht-e Soleyman, is an archaeological site in West Azarbaijan, Iran....
  • Tang-e Bolaghi
    Tang-e Bolaghi

    Tangeh Bolaghi, also transliterated as Tange-ye Bolaghi , or Bolaghi Gorge, is an archaeologically significant valley consisting of 130 ancient settlements, dating back to the period between 5000 BCE and the Sassanid Empire dynastic era ....
  • Taq-e Bostan
    Taq-e Bostan

    Taqwas?n or Taq-e Bostan or Taq-i-Bustan is a series of large rock relief from the era of Sassanid Empire of Persia, the History of Iran which ruled western Asia from 226 to 650 AD....
  • Warwasi
    Warwasi

    Warwasi is a Paleolithic rockshelter site located at north of Kermanshah in western Iran. It was Excavation by Bruce Howe under direction of late Robert John Braidwood in the 1960's....


Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

  • Al-Qurnah
    Al-Qurnah

    Al-Qurnah is a small village in southern Iraq about 74 km northwest of Basra, within the town of Nahairat. Qurna is located at the point where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers join to form the Shatt al-Arab....
  • Babylon
    Babylon

    Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, sometimes considered an empire, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad....
  • Baghdad
    Baghdad

    Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
  • Barda Balka
  • Hatra
    Hatra

    Hatra is an ancient ruined city in the Ninawa Governorate and al-Jazira, Mesopotamia of Iraq. It is today called al-Hadr, and it stands in the ancient Persian province of Khvarvaran....
  • Isin
    ISIN

    An International Securities Identification Number uniquely identifies a Security . Its structure is defined in ISO 6166. Securities for which ISINs are issued include Bond , commercial paper, equities and Warrant s....
  • Jarmo
    Jarmo

    Jarmo is an archeological site located in Northern Iraq on the foothills of Zagros Mountains east of Kirkuk city . It is known as the oldest agricultural community in the world, dating back to 7000 BC....
  • Nimrud
    Nimrud

    Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. In ancient times the city was called Kalhu. The Arabs called the city Nimrud after Nimrod , a legendary hunting hero....
  • Nineveh
    Nineveh

    Nineveh , an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, Iraq....
  • Palagawra
  • Samarra
    Samarra

    Samarra is a city in Iraq.It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah al-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
  • Shanidar
    Shanidar

    The cave site of Shanidar is located in the Zagros Mountains of Kurdistan in Iraq. It was excavated between 1957-1961 by Ralph Solecki and his team from Columbia University and yielded the first adult Neanderthal skeletons in Iraq, dating between 60-80,000 years Before Present....
  • Ur
    Ur

    Ur is modern Tell el-Mukayyar, Iraq, and was a city in ancient Sumer. Once a coastal city near the mouth of the then Euphrates river on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland....
  • Al-Mada'in
    Al-Mada'in

    Al-Mada'in is the name of an ancient urban complex along the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, that was the site of the cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon, and was also referred to as Seleucia-Ctesiphon....
     (Taq-i Kisra
    Taq-i Kisra

    The Taq-i Kisra is a Persian architecture monument in Al-Mada'in which is the only visible remaining structure of the ancient city of Ctesiphon....
    's ruins)
  • Zarzi


Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....

  • Grianan of Aileach
    Grianan of Aileach

    The Grianan of Aileach is a group of historic monuments in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland built on the hill of Grian?n which is 244 metres high....
  • Hill of Tara
    Hill of Tara

    The Hill of Tara , located near the River Boyne, is an archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Republic of Ireland....
  • Innisfallen Abbey
    Innisfallen Island

    Innisfallen Island is found in Lough Leane, one of the three Lakes of Killarney in Republic of Ireland. It is home to the ruins of Innisfallen Abbey, one of the most impressive archaeological remains dating from the early Christian period found in the Killarney National Park....
  • Kilcrea Abbey
  • Monasterboice
    Monasterboice

    The historic ruins of Monasterboice are of an early Christian settlement in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland, north of Drogheda. It was founded in the late 5th century by Saint Buite who died around Anno Domini 521 and was an important centre of religion and learning until founding of nearby Mellifont Abbey in 1142....
  • Newgrange
    Newgrange

    Newgrange is one of the passage tombs of the Br? na B?inne complex in County Meath, one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world and the most famous of all Ireland prehistoric sites....
  • Trim Castle
    Trim Castle

    Trim Castle , Trim, County Meath, Ireland, on the shores of the Boyne has an area of 30,000 m?. It is the remains of the largest Norman architecture castle in Europe, and Ireland's largest castle....


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....

  • Ashkelon
    Ashkelon

    Ashkelon or Ashqelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Bronze Age. In the course of its history, it has been ruled by the Canaanites, the Philistines, the Babylonians, the Phoenicians, the Ancient Romes, the Muslims and the Crusaders....
    , an ancient Canaan
    Canaan

    Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
    ite and Philistine
    Philistines

    The Philistines were a ethnic group who occupied the southern coast of Canaan, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts....
     city.
  • Avdat
    Avdat

    Avdat or Ovdat or Obodat, the remains of a Nabataean road station for their caravans, is located on a mountain in the center of the Negev Desert in Israel on the road from Petra and Eilat....
  • Bethsaida
    Bethsaida

    Category:All articles lacking sourcesBethsaida is a place mentioned in the New Testament....
  • Beth Shean
  • Caesarea Maritima
  • Capernaum
    Capernaum

    Capernaum was a settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The site is a ruin today, but was inhabited from 150 BC to about AD 750.The town is mentioned in the New Testament: in the Gospel of Luke it was reported to have been the home of the Twelve apostles Saint Peter, Saint Andrew, Saint James the Great and John the Apostle, as well...
  • Et-Tell
    Et-Tell

    Et-Tell is an archaeology site in the West Bank that is popularly thought to be the Bible city of Ai .Location and identification ...
  • Gezer
    Gezer

    Gezer was a town in ancient History of ancient Israel and Judah. Scholars believe that Gezer is Tel Gezer , a site around midway on the route between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv....
  • Gibeon
    Gibeon

    Gibeon was a Canaanite city north of Jerusalem that was conquered by Joshua. Today, the Palestinian village of Jib is the modern representation of ancient Gibeon....
  • Haluza
    Haluza

    Haluza, also known as Halasa and Elusa, is a city in the Negev that was once part of the Nabataean Incense Route. Due to this historic importance, UNESCO have granted four cities in the Negev the joint status of a World Heritage Site; Haluza is one of these, the others being Mamshit, Avdat, Shivta....
  • Hippos
    Hippos

    Hippos is an archaeology located in Israel on a hill overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Between the third century BC and the seventh century AD, Hippos was the site of a Greco-Roman city....
  • Jericho
    Jericho

    Jericho is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories. It is the capital of the Jericho Governorate, and has a population of over 20,000 Arabs....
  • Jerusalem
    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
    , particularly the Temple Mount
    Temple Mount

    The Temple Mount , also known as Mount Moriah and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary , is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem of Jerusalem....
  • Lachish
    Lachish

    Lachish was a town located in the Shephelah, or maritime plain of Philistia . This town was first mentioned in the Amarna letters as Lakisha-Laki?a ....
  • Mamshit
    Mamshit

    Mamshit is the Nabataean city of Memphis. In the Nabataean period, Mamshit was important because it sat on Incense Road, on the route from the Idumean Mountains to the Arabah, which passed through Ma'ale Akrabim and continued on to Beer-Sheva or to Hebron and Jerusalem....
  • Neve David
    Neve David

    Neve David is an Early Epipaleolithic site located at the foot of the western slope of the Mount Carmel hills in northern Israel. It was inhabited in the later part of the Early Epipaleolithic, about 15,000?13,000 BC....
  • Ramat Rahel
  • Shivta
    Shivta

    Shivta or Sobota or Subeitah or Subaytah , is an archaeological site in the Negev Desert of Israel, east of Nitzana . Until 1948, there was a Palestinian village of the same name, Subaytah, located just to the south of the archaeological site....
  • Tel Arad
    Tel Arad

    Tel Arad or 'old' Arad is located west of the Dead Sea, about 10km west of modern Arad, Israel in an area surrounded by mountain ridges which is known as the Arad Becken....
  • Tel Be'er Sheva
    Tel Be'er Sheva

    Tel Be'er Sheva is an archeological site in southern Israel believed to be the remains of the biblical town of Be'er Sheva The modern town of Beersheba is situated west of the tel....
  • Tel Dan
    Tel Dan

    Tel Dan , also known as Tel el-Qadi , is an archaeological site in Israel in the upper Galilee next to the Golan Heights. The site is quite securely identified with the Biblical city of Laish, the northernmost city in the Kingdom of Israel, which the Book of Judges states was known as Laish prior to its conquest by the Tribe o...
  • Tel Hazor
  • Tel Megiddo


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....

Agrigento
Agrigento

Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragras , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece....
Agrigentum Asti
Asti

Asti is a city and comune of c. 75,000 inhabitants located in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy, about 55 kilometres east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River....
Calabria
Calabria

Calabria , is a Regions of Italy in Southern Italy Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea....
Campania
Campania

Campania is a Regions of Italy of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy, its total area of 13,595 km? makes it the most densely populated region in the country....
Caulonia
Caulonia

Caulonia is a comune in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italy region Calabria, located about 60 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 70 km northeast of Reggio Calabria....
Croton
Crotone

Crotone is a city in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Ionian Sea. Founded circa 710 BC as the Achaean colony of Croton , it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to Crotone....
Erice
Erice

Erice is a historic town in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy.Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo san Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on Sicily's north-western coast, p...
Forum Romanum Forlì - Monte Poggiolo
Forlì

Forl? is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forl?, of the Renaissance humanism historian Flavio Biondo, of the famous physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni....
Giardini Naxos Herculaneum
Herculaneum

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman Empire town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. Its ruins can be found at the co-ordinates , in the Italy region of Campania....
Isernia La Pineta
Isernia

Isernia is a town and comune in the central Italy region of Molise, and the capital of Province of Isernia....
Lazio Locri
Locri

Locri is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. The name derives from the ancient Greek "Locris" ....
Morgantina
Morgantina

The archaeological site of Morgantina is located in east central Sicily, at 37? 26.035' N 14? 28.928' E. It is sixty kilometres from the coast of the Ionian Sea, in the province of Enna....
Mozia
Mozia

Mozia is a small island, formerly known as Motia and San Pantaleo in the Trapani province, in Sicily, Italy, lies in the Stagnone Lagoon, and is generally included as a part of the comune of Marsala....
Ostia Antica
Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica is a large archeological site that was the harbour city of ancient Rome, which is approximately 30 kilometers northeast of the site....
Piemonte Pompeii
Pompeii

Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Ancient Rome town-city near modern Naples in the Italy region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei....
Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
Rhegion Sardinia
List of archaeological and artistic sites of Sardinia

This is a list of archaeological and artistic sites of Sardinia, Italy:*Acquafredda near Siliqua, Italy, castle, 13th century*Aiodda near Nurallao, Giants' Tomb...
Segesta
Segesta

Segesta was the political center of the Elymian people. It is placed in the northwestern part of Sicily, in the province of Trapani and in the comune of Calatafimi-Segesta....
Selinunte
Selinunte

Selinunte is an ancient Greece archaeology site situated on the south coast of Sicily between the valleys of the rivers Belice and Modione in the province of Trapani....
Sibari 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....
Siracusa Suasa
Suasa

Suasa was an ancient Rome town in what is now the comune of Castelleone di Suasa, Marche, Italy. It is located in the Pian Volpello locality, in the valley of the Cesano River....
Taormina
Taormina

Taormina is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania....
Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
Tusculum
Tusculum

Tusculum is the classical Roman name of a major ancient Alban Hills city, in the Latium region of Italy....
Trapani
Trapani

Trapani is a city on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands....
Villa Romana del Casale
Villa Romana del Casale

Villa Romana del Casale is a Roman villa located about 5 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy. It contains the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman Empire mosaics in the world....
Veleia
Veleia (Italy)

Veleia, an ancient town of Aemilia, Italy, situated about 20 miles south of Placentia. It is mentioned by Pliny among the towns of the eighth region, though the Veleiates were Ligurians by race....
, Piacenza
Piacenza

Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza....


Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

Iwajuku
Iwajuku

The site of a major archeological discovery, Iwajuku provided evidence of habitation of Japan by humans before 10,000 BC. To date, these are the oldest record of human dwellings from Japan's past....
Sannai-Maruyama
Sannai-Maruyama site

is a Jomon archaeological site in Sannai, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. In 1992, Aomori Prefecture tried to establish new baseball stadium, but as the result the remains were found....
Yoshinogari
Yoshinogari site

Yoshinogari is the name of a large and complex Yayoi archaeological site in Yoshinogari, Saga and Kanzaki, Saga in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan....


Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....

'Ain Ghazal
'Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located in North-Eastern Jordan, on the outskirts of Amman. It dates as far back as 7250 BC, and was inhabited until 5000 BC....
Jerash
Jerash

Jerash, the Gerasa of Antiquity, is the capital and largest city of Jerash Governorate , which is situated in the north of Jordan, 48 km north of the capital Amman towards Syria....
Madaba mosaic map Petra
Petra

Petra is an Archaeology site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a Depression among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah , the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba....


Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....

Türkistan

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east....

Issyk Kul
Issyk Kul

Issyk Kul is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the List of lakes by volume and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea....


Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....

Anjar
Anjar, Lebanon

Anjar , also known as Haoush Mousa , is a town of Lebanon located in the Bekaa Valley. The population is about 2,400, consisting almost entirely of Armenians in Lebanon....
Baalbek
Baalbek

Baalbek is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 1,170 m , situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman Empire period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire....
Byblos
Byblos

Byblos is the Greek language name of the Phoenician city Gebal . It is a Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of present-day Lebanon under the current Arabic language name of Jbeil and was also referred to as Gibelet during the Crusades....


Macedonia, Republic of

Ohrid
Ohrid

Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the List of cities in the Republic of Macedonia by population in the country....
Stobi
Stobi

Stobi was an ancient town of Paionia, later conquered by Macedon, and later still incorporated into the Ancient Rome province of Macedonia Salutaris ....
Heraclea Lyncestis
Heraclea Lyncestis

Heraclea Lyncestis also spelled Herakleia Lynkestis, was an Ancient Greece city in the north-western region of the ancient kingdom of Macedon....
Vardarski Rid
Vardarski Rid

Vardarski Rid is an archaeological site in Gevgelija, Republic of Macedonia of a town dating from Early classical antiquity. Archaeological excavations reveal the architectural layout of the monumental stoa, an acropolis, and other segments from the settlement....
Astibo
Astibo

Astibo is an early Roman citizen settlement which is located in the modern city of ?tip in the Republic of Macedonia....
Bargala
Bargala

Bargala was a fortified town constructed between the4th and 6th century A.D., a period spanning Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium. It is located 20 km northeast of the modern city of ?tip, Republic of Macedonia on the lower slopes of the Plachkovica mountain....
Scupi
Scupi

Scupi it is an archaeological site located between Zajcev Rid and the Vardar River, several kilometers from the center of Skopje, in Republic of Macedonia....
Vinicko Kale
Vinicko Kale

Vinicko Kale is an ancient ruin located near Vinica , Republic of Macedonia. It is located on the left side of the Grdecka River, on a hill about 400 meters above sea level....
Veluška Tumba
Veluška Tumba

Velu?ka Tumba is an ancient living area from Neolithic times located near the village of Porodin, Republic of Macedonia, close to Bitola. Velu?ka Tumba was discovered in 1978....
Tumba (Skopje)
Tumba (Skopje)

Tumba is an ancient Neolithic settlement located in the north-eastern part of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, near Stadium of FC Madzari Solidarnost....
Trebeništa
Trebeništa

Trebeni?ta is an ancient Illyrian necropolis dating from the Iron Age around the 7th century B.C. It is located a near the town of Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia....
St. Erazmo Kokino
Kokino

File:Megalithic Observatory Kokino.jpgKokino is an important archaeological site and a megalithic observatory discovered in 2001 by archeologist Jovica Stankovski in the northeastern Republic of Macedonia, approximately 30 km from the town of Kumanovo, near the village of Staro Nagoricane Latitude: 42.260000N Longitude: 21.850000E....
Estipeon
Estipeon

Estipeon is the name of an early Byzantine settlement, in the Republic of Macedonia dating from the 3rd to the 5th centuries AD. The Byzantine settlement was destroyed between the 5th and 6th centuries AD after a succession of joint Slavic and Avar attacks....
Bylazora
Bylazora

Bylazora or Vylazora was a Paionian city from the period of early classic antiquity. It is located in Ovce Pole, a valley in the Republic of Macedonia, on a locality called Gradi?te....
Bara Tumba
Bara Tumba

Bara Tumba is an ancient living area from Neolithic times located near the village of Porodin, Republic of Macedonia, near Bitola. Discovered in 1953, several objects and some old Neolithic houses have been found....
Antique Theatre
Antique Theatre

The Antique Theatre is an Ancient Greece theatre, of the Hellenistic period, located in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. It was built in the year 200 B.C....


Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....

Niah Caves
Niah Caves

Niah Caves is located within the district of Miri in Sarawak, Malaysia. Part of Niah National Park, the main cave, Niah Great Cave, is located in Gunung Subis and is made up of several voluminous, high-ceilinged chambers....
Sungai Tingkayu Kota Tampan Lenggong
Lenggong

Lenggong is a town in Perak, Malaysia. It is situated 100 km north of Ipoh....
Bujang Valley
Bujang Valley

The Bujang Valley or Lembah Bujang is a sprawling historical complex and has an area of approximately 224 square km. Situated near Merbok, Kedah, between Gunung Jerai in the north and Muda River in the south, it is the richest archaeological area in Malaysia....


Mali
Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west....

Timbuktu
Timbuktu

Timbuktu is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African nation of Mali. It was made prosperous by Mansa Musa, tenth mansa of the Mali Empire....


Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....

Clapham Junction
Clapham Junction (Malta)

Clapham Junction is a prehistoric site on Malta near the Dingli Cliffs. It is a complex network of tracks gouged in the rock. Its age and purpose are still a mystery of Maltese history....
 - cart ruts Ggantija Temples
Ggantija

Ggantija is a Neolithic, megalithic temple complex on the Mediterranean island of Gozo Island. The Ggantija temples are the earliest of a series of Megalithic Temples of Malta in Malta....
 - listed as a UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
Hagar Qim Temples
Hagar Qim

Hagar Qim is a megalithic temple found on the Mediterranean island of Malta, dating from the Ggantija phase . The Megalithic Temples of Malta are amongst the most ancient Sanctuary#Sanctuary as a sacred place on Earth, described by the World Heritage Site as "unique architectural masterpieces." In 1992 UNESCO recognized Hagar Qim and four...
 - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni
Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni

The Hypogeum in Hal-Saflieni, Paola, Malta, Malta, is a subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase in Maltese prehistory. Thought to be originally a sanctuary, it became a necropolis in prehistoric times....
 - prehistoric subterranean structure listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site Mnajdra Temples
Mnajdra

Mnajdra is a megalithic temple found on the on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta. Mnajdra is approximately 500 metres from the Hagar Qim megalithic complex....
 - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site Tarxien Temples
Tarxien Temples

The Tarxien Temples are an archaeological complex in Tarxien, Malta. They date back to approximately 2800 BC. The site was accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980 along with Megalithic Temples of Malta on the island of Malta....
 - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site Xaghra Stone Circle
Xaghra Stone Circle

The Xaghra Stone Circle, also known as the Brochtorff Circle, is an underground Neolithic temple that was also used for burial, situated in Xaghra on the Malta island of Gozo....


Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....

Bonampak
Bonampak

Bonampak is an ancient Maya civilization archaeological site in the Mexico Political divisions of Mexico of Chiapas. The site is approximately 30km south of the larger site of Yaxchilan, under which Bonampak was a dependency, and the border with Guatemala....
Cacaxtla
Cacaxtla

Cacaxtla is an archaeology site located near the southern border of the States of Mexico of Tlaxcala....
Calakmul
Calakmul

Calakmul is the name given to site of one of the largest ancient Maya civilization cities ever uncovered. It is located in the 1,800,000 acre Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Campeche, deep in the jungles of the greater Pet?n Basin region, 30 km from the Guatemalan border....
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucat?n Peninsula, in the Yucat?n state, present-day Mexico....
Cholula (Mesoamerican site)
Cholula (Mesoamerican site)

File:Cholula Massacre .jpgCholula , was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BCE, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier....
Coba
Coba

Coba is a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is located about 90 km east of the Maya site of Chichen Itza, about 40 km west of the Caribbean Sea, and 44 km northwest of the site of Tulum, with which it is connected by a modern road....
Cuello early agricultural site. Dainzú
Dainzú

Dainz? is a Zapotec civilization archaeological site in the Valley of Oaxaca, an ancient village near to and contemporary with Monte Alban and Mitla, and located about 20 km south-east of the modern-day city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico....
Dzibilchaltun
Dzibilchaltun

Dzibilchalt?n is a Maya civilization archaeological site in the States of Mexico of Yucat?n, approximately 10 miles north of state capital M?rida, Yucat?n....
Edzna
Edzna

Edzn? is a Maya civilization archaeological site in the north of the Mexican state of Campeche.The most remarkable building at the plaza is the main temple....
Ek' Balam
Ek' Balam

Ek' Balam is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Yucat?n, Mexico built by the Maya civilization. The site is located 30km north of Valladolid,_Yucat?n, 2km away from a small Maya peoples by the same name....
Guila Naquitz early agricultural site. Izapa
Izapa

Izapa is a very large pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the Mexican state of Chiapas; it was occupied during the Mesoamerican chronology....
Kabah (Maya site) Labna
Labná

Labna is a Mesoamerican archaeological site and ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Puuc Hills region of the Yucat?n Peninsula....
Lambityeco
Lambityeco

Lambityeco is a small archaeological site in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is located just off List of Mexican Federal Highways between the Oaxaca, Oaxaca and Mitla, about 25 km from the former....
Mitla
Mitla

Mitla is the name commonly given to an archaeological site located in the town of San Pablo Villa de Mitla in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is famous for its pre-Columbian Mesoamerican buildings....
Monte Albán
Monte Albán

Monte Alb?n is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca. The site is located on a low mountainous range rising above the plain in the central section of the Valley of Oaxaca where the latter's northern Etla, eastern Tlacolula, and southern Zimatl?n/Ocotl?n branches meet....
Palenque
Palenque

Palenque is a Maya civilization archeological site near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, located about 130 km south of Ciudad del Carmen ....
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán

San Lorenzo Tenochtitl?n is the collective name for three related archaeological sites -- San Lorenzo, Tenochtitl?n, and Potrero Nuevo -- located in the southeast portion of the Mexican state of Veracruz....
Santa Cecilia Acatitlan
Santa Cecilia Acatitlan

Acatitlan is an archeological zone of the early Aztec culture located in the town of Santa Cecilia, in the municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz in Mexico State, about 10 km northwest of Mexico City....
Sayil
Sayil

Sayil is a Maya civilization archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucat?n, in the southwest of the state, south of Uxmal. It is incorporated together with Uxmal as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996....
El Tajín
El Tajín

El Taj?n is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico region. It was the major site of the Classic Veracruz culture and one of the largest cities in Mesoamerica during the Mesoamerican chronology....
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas is one of the 31 States of Mexico of Mexico and is located in the northeast....
 early agricultural site. Templo Mayor Tenayuca
Tenayuca

Tenayuca is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico. In the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology Tenayuca was a settlement on the former shoreline of the western arm of Lake Texcoco, located approximately 10kilometre to the northwest of Tenochtitlan ....
Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan was a Nahua peoples altepetl located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded in 1325, it became the seat of Aztec Empire in the 15th century, until being Fall of Tenochtitlan....
Teopanzolco
Teopanzolco

Teopanzolco is an Aztec archaeological site in the Mexican state of Morelos. Due to urban growth, it now lies within the modern city of Cuernavaca....
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacán

Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest Mesoamerican pyramid built in the pre-Columbian Americas....
El Tepozteco
El Tepozteco

El Tepozteco is an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Morelos. It consists of a small temple to the Aztec god Tepoztecatl, a god of the alcoholic pulque beverage....
Tizatlan
Tizatlan

Tizatlan, in precolumbian Mexico, was one of the four independent altepetl that constituted the confederation of Tlaxcala . It was the third of the four altepetl to be founded, but at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico it was, along with Ocotelolco , the most powerful of the four allied communities....
Tlapacoya Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco (archaeological site)

Tlatelolco is an archaeological excavation site in Mexico City, Mexico where remains of the pre-Columbian city-state of Tlatelolco have been found....
Toniná
Tonina

Tonina is a pre-Columbian List of Maya sites and ruined city of the Maya civilization located in what is now the Mexican state of Chiapas, some 13 km east of the town of Ocosingo....
Tula
Tula

Tula may refer to:In geography:*Tula, Hidalgo, a town in Mexico*Tula, Tamaulipas, a place in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico*Tula River in central Mexico...
Tulum
Tulum

Tulum is the site of a Pre-Columbian Maya civilization Defensive wall serving as a major port for Cob?.The ruins are located on 39-foot cliffs, along the east coast of the Yucat?n Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico....
Uxmal
Uxmal

Uxmal is a large pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in the state of Yucat?n, Mexico. It is 78 km south of M?rida, Yucat?n, or 110 km from that city on Highway 261 towards Campeche, Campeche), 15 km south-southeast of the town of Muna ....
La Venta
La Venta

La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco....
Xcaret
Xcaret

Xcaret is a Maya civilization archaeological site located on the Caribbean Sea coastline of the Yucat?n Peninsula, in the modern-day state of Quintana Roo in Mexico....
Xlapak Xochicalco
Xochicalco

Xochicalco is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos. The name Xochicalco may be translated from Nahuatl as "in the house of Flowers"....
Xochitecatl
Xochitecatl

Xochitecatl is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the Mexican State of Tlaxcala, 18km southwest of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala city. The major architecture dates to the Mesoamerican chronology but occupation continued, with one major interruption, until the Mesoamerican chronology, when the site was abandoned, although there is evidence o...
Yagul
Yagul

Yagul is an archaeological site and former city-state associated with the Zapotec civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca....
Yaxchilan
Yaxchilan

Yaxchilan is an ancient Maya civilization city located on the Usumacinta River in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico.The ancient name for the city was probably Pa' Chan....
Zaachila
Zaachila

Zaachila is a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, 6 km from the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca. It is also an archaeological site consisting of the remains of an important Mesoamerica#Postclassic Zapotec civilization city of the same name....


Micronesia
Micronesia

Micronesia , from the Greek language mikros and nesos , is a subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the Pacific Ocean....

Nan Madol
Nan Madol

Nan Madol is a ruined city that lies off the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei and used to be the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty until about AD 1500....
Chuuk
Chuuk

Chuuk — formerly Truk, Ruk, Hogoleu, Torres, Ugulat, and Lugulus — is an island group in the south western part of the Pacific Ocean....


Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....

Lixus
Lixus

Lixus refers to the following things:* lixus, the Latin word for "boiled"* Lixus in Morocco* Lixus , a genus of true weevils* Lixus , a Japanese distribution company...
Tamuda
Tamuda

Tamuda is an Archeology site in Morocco situated near Tetouan. It was founded in the 3rd century BC by the Mauretanians.The city was one of the major cities of the Roman province Mauretania Tingitana....
Volubilis
Volubilis

Volubilis is an List of archaeological sites in Morocco situated near Meknes between Fez, Morocco and Rabat along the N13 road . The nearest town is Moulay Idriss....


New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....

Te Wairoa
Te Wairoa

Te Wairoa, also known as The Buried Village is located close to the shore of Lake Tarawera in New Zealand's North Island. It was a Maori and European settlement where visitors would stay on their way to visit the Pink and White Terraces....
 - Maori village buried by volcanic eruption in the 1880s Albert Park tunnels
Albert Park tunnels

The Albert Park tunnels are found largely beneath Albert Park, Auckland, in central Auckland, New Zealand. The tunnels were constructed as air raid shelters during the World War II....
 - World War II civilian air raid shelters sealed in 1946

Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 

Borg in Lofoten
Lofoten

Lofoten is an archipelago and a Districts of Norway in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude....
 a Viking Age longhouse site Borre mound cemetery
Borre mound cemetery

The Borre mound cemetery forms part of the Borre National Park in Horten, Vestfold, Norway. The park covers 45 acres and its collection of burial mounds is exceptional in Scandinavia....
, a Merovingian cemetery Gokstad
Gokstad ship

The Gokstad ship is a late 9th century Viking ship found in a ship burial beneath a burial mound at Gokstad farm in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway....
 ship burial Oseberg ship burial Tune
Tune

Tune can refer to:* A melody or tune-family* A tune , a short piece of instrumental music, usually with repeating sections, and often played a number of times....
 ship burial

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...

Harappa
Harappa

Harappa is a city in Punjab , northeast Pakistan, about 35 km southwest of Sahiwal.The modern town is located near the former course of the Ravi River and also beside the ruins of an ancient history fortification city, which was part of the Cemetery H culture and the Indus Valley Civilization....
Mehrgarh
Mehrgarh

Mehrgarh, one of the most important Neolithic sites in archaeology, lies on what is now the "Kachi plain" of today's Balochistan , Pakistan. It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia."...
Mohenjo-daro
Mohenjo-daro

Mohenjo-daro was one of the largest city-settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization of south Asia situated in the province of Sind, Pakistan....
Taxila
Taxila

Taxila is an important archaeological site in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It dates back to the Ancient Indian period and contains the ruins of the Gandhara city of Takshashila an important Vedanta/Hinduism and Buddhist centre of learning from the 6th century BCE...
Mankiala
Mankiala

Mankiala stupa lies beside Mankiala village 27 kilometres south of Rawalpindi city, just 2 kilometres from the Grand Trunk Road. It is famous for its ruined stupa or tope....
Sialkot Fort
Sialkot Fort

Sialkot Fort is one of the oldest forts in Pakistan. The city of Sialkot, which is one of the oldest cities of Pakistan , has historical significance due to the Fort, The well-known historian, Diayas Jee, has stated that Raja S?lb?n re-established Sialkot city around the 2nd century CE....
Ranikot Fort
Ranikot Fort

Ranikot Fort is the world's largest fort with a circumference of about 29 km or 18 miles. Since 1993, it has been on the list of tenative UNESCO World Heritage Sites....
Takht-i-Bahi Rohtas Fort
Rohtas Fort

Rohtas Fort is a garrison fort built by the great Afghan king Sher Shah Suri. This fort is about 4 km in circumference and the first example of the successful amalgamation of Pukhtun and Hindu architecture in the sub-continent....


Palau
Palau

Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an borderless country in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles south of Tokyo....

Aemiliik Site

Panama
Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....

Cerro Mangote Monagrillo

Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

Acaray
Acaray

Acaray, also known as the Fortress of Acaray, is an archaeological site located in the Huaura River Valley on the near north coast of Peru ....
Ancon
Ancón District

Anc?n is a Districts of Peru of northern Lima Province in Peru. It is a popular beach resort, visited every summer by hundreds of people from Lima....
 agricultural domestication. Ayacucho
Ayacucho

Ayacucho is the capital city of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.Ayacucho is famous for its 33 churches which represent one for every year of Jesus's life.....
 agricultural and animal domestication. Buena Vista
Buena Vista, Peru

Buena Vista is an 8 hectare archaeological site located in the Chillon River Valley north of Lima, Peru. The site was first excavated by Frederic Engel ....
Cahuachi
Cahuachi

Cahuachi, in Peru, was a major ceremonial center of the Nazca culture and overlooked some of the Nazca lines from 1 CE to about 500 CE. Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici has been excavating the site for the past few decades, bringing a team down every year....
 Nazca Caral
Caral

Chico civilization]]'Caral' is a large settlement in the Supe Valley, near Supe, Barranca province, Peru, some 200 km north of Lima. Caral is one of the most ancient cities of Americas and as a matter of fact of the entire world, and is a well-studied site of the Norte Chico civilization....
Chan Chan
Chan Chan

The largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan is an archaeology site located in the Peruvian region of La Libertad region, five km east of Trujillo, Peru....
Chavin de Huantar
Chavín de Huantar

Chav?n de Hu?ntar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed by the Chav?n culture, a pre-Inca culture, around 900 BC....
Chilca
Chilca

Chilca was a rocket launch site in Peru at , near to Lima. Chilca was in service from 1974 and 1983 and was mainly used for launching Arcas and Project Nike rockets....
 agricultural domestication. Choquequirao
Choquequirao

Choquequirao is a partly excavated ruined city of the Inca in the south of Peru. It bears a striking similarity in structure and architecture to Machu Picchu and is referred to as its 'sister'....
Cumbe Mayo Cuzco Huari Guitarrero Cave
Guitarrero Cave

Guitarrero Cave is located in the Callejon de Huaylas valley in the Ancash region of Peru....
 agricultural domestication. Jiskairumoko
Jiskairumoko

Jiskairumoko is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site located 54 kilometers south east of Puno, Peru. The site lies at an elevation of 4,115 meters , in the Aymara community of Jachacachi, adjacent to the Ilave River drainage, of the Lake Titicaca, Peru....
Junin
Junín

Jun?n may refer to:...
 animal domesication. Kuelap
Kuelap

The fortress of Kuelap , associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings....
Lauricocha
Lauricocha

Lauricocha may refer to the following:*Lauricocha Province - a province in the Hu?nuco Region in central Per?*Lauricocha - a parish in the central highlands of Per?...
 animal domesication. Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca Empire site located above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows....
Nazca
Nazca

Nazca is the name of a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the region's largest existing town. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 300 BC and 800....
Ocucaje Nazca Ollantaytambo
Ollantaytambo

Ollantaytambo is a town and an Inca archaeological site in southern Peru some 60 kilometers northwest of the city of Cusco. It is located at an altitude of 2,792 meters above sea level in the district of Ollantaytambo District, Urubamba Province, Cusco region....
Pacheco
Pacheco

Pacheco is a Spanish and Portuguese surname:...
 Nazca Pachacamac
Pachacamac

The temple of Pachacamac is an archaeological site 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lur?n River. It had at least one pyramid, cemetery and multicolored fresco of fish by the Pre-Inca cultures period ....
Palpa
Palpa

Palpa may refer to:In Peru:*Palpa, Peru, near the Nazca Lines*Palpa Province, in the Ica RegionIn Nepal:*Palpa District, a district of Nepal in the Lumbini Zone...
 Nazca Paracas
Paracas

Paracas may refer to the following:* Paracas culture, an important Andean society that existed in Peru between approximately 750 BC and 100 AD...
 Nazca Pikillacta
Pikillacta

Pikillacta is a large Huari Culture archaeological site 20km east of Cusco in the province of Quispicanchi_Province.The site is also known as Piki Llacta, Pikillacta or Piquillacta....
 Huari. Pikimachay
Pikimachay

Pikimachay is an archaeology site in the Ayacucho Valley of Peru. The site has been dated to around 20,000 BCE, however this evidence has been disputed and currently a date of 12,000 BCE seems more likely....
Písac
Písac

P?sac is a Peruvian village in the Sacred Valley on the Urubamba River. The village is well-known for its market every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, an event which attracts heavy tourism traffic from nearby Cusco....
Sacsayhuamán
Sacsayhuamán

Sacsayhuam?n is an Inca walled complex near the old city of Cusco, at an altitude of 3,701 m.Some believe the walls were a form of fortification, while others believe it was only used to form the head of the Cougar that Sacsayhuam?n along with Cuzco form when seen from above....
Sillustani
Sillustani

Sillustani is a pre-Inca Empire Cemetery on the shores of Lake Umayo near Puno in Peru. The tombs, which are built above ground in tower-like structures called chullpas, are the vestiges of the Colla people, Aymara who were conquered by the Inca in the 1400s....
Sipán
Sipán

Sip?n is a Moche archaeological site in northern Peru that is famous for the tomb of Lord of Sip?n , excavated by Walter Alva. It is considered to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the last thirty years, because the main tomb was found intact and undisturbed by thieves....
Tambo Colorado
Tambo Colorado

Tambo Colorado is a well-preserved Inca adobe complex on the coast of Peru, also known as Puka Tampu, Pucallacta or Pucahuasi....
Tambomachay
Tambomachay

Tambomachay or Tampumachay is an archaeology site associated with the Inca Empire, located near Cusco, Peru. An alternate local name is the El Ba?o del Inca, "The Bath of the Inca"....
Teojate Nazca Túcume
Túcume

Purgatorio is the name by which local people refer to the dozens of pre-Hispanic pyramids, enclosures and mounds found on the plain around La Raya Mountain, south of the La Leche River....
Wari ruins
Wari ruins

The Wari Ruins are located near Quinua, Peru, Peru at an altitude 2470 m above sea-level. The ruins are in almost the same condition as they were during the days of the powerful Wari culture empire....
Yauca Nazca.

Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....

Biskupin
Biskupin

Biskupin is an archaeology site and a life-size model of an Iron Age fortified human settlement in north-central Poland . It belongs to the Biskupin group of the Lusatian culture....
 Iron Age Giecz
Giecz

Giecz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dominowo, within Sroda Wielkopolska County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland....
 Middle Ages Krzemionki Opatowskie Neolith Odry
Odry

Odry is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has 7,467 inhabitants.External links...
 Iron Age Ostrów Lednicki
Ostrów Lednicki

Ostr?w Lednicki is a castle in Poland built in medieval times on an island on Lake Lednica . The castle is thought to be the home of the first Kings of the Piast dynasty. Today the ruins are of archaeology significance....
 Middle Ages Trzcianka hill fort Early Middle Ages

Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....

Bracara Augusta Conimbriga
Conímbriga

Con?mbriga is one of the largest Roman Empire settlements in Portugal, and is classified as a National Monument. Con?mbriga lies 16 km from Coimbra and less than 2 km from Condeixa-a-Nova....
Fonte do Milho São João de Valinhas
São João de Valinhas

S?o Jo?o de Valinhas is an archaeology site in Portugal. It has shown to have important traces of human remains for the last 2000 years.The topography conditions of the area consist of a hill that dominates the valley of Arouca, Portugal, and this vantage point led to the creation and settlement of a small community from the tenth to the...


Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....

Callatis Coasta lui Damian
Coasta lui Damian

File:Archeology in Giurtelecu Simleului in 1950s.jpgCoasta lui Damian is the main archaeological site in Giurtelecu Simleului .Coasta lui Damian is in Romania ....
Giurtelecu Simleului Histria
Histria (Sinoe)

Ancient Histria or Istros , was a Greek colony or polis on the Black Sea coast, established by Milesian settlers to trade with the native Getae....
Sarmisegetusa Trophaeum Traiani Tomis

Russian archaeology
Russian archaeology

Russian archaeology begins in the Russian Empire in the 1850s and becomes Soviet archaeology in the early 20th century.The journal Sovetskaya Arkheologiia is published from 1957....

Arkaim
Arkaim

Arkaim is an archaeological site situated in the Southern Urals steppe, 8.2 km north-to-northwest of Amurskiy, and 2.3 km south-to-southeast of Alexandronvskiy, two villages in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, just to the north from the Kazakhstani border....
 - Proto-Aryans Ipatovo
Ipatovo

Ipatovo is a types of settlements in Russia in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the Kalaus River about 120 km northeast of Stavropol. It is the administrative center of Ipatovsky District....
 - Proto-Indo-Europeans Kriove Ozero - Proto-Aryans Ladoga
Staraya Ladoga

Staraya Ladoga , Vanha Laatokka in finnish or the Aldeigjuborg of Norse sagas, is a Types of inhabited localities in Russia in the Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga....
 - Vikings/Russians Maykop - Proto-Indo-Europeans Novgorod - Vikings/Russians Pazyryk
Pazyryk

The Pazyryk is the name of an ancient nomadic people who lived in the Altai Mountains lying in Siberian Russia south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, near the borders of China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia....
 - Scythians Sarkel
Sarkel

Sarkel was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine Empire assistance in the 830s. Sarkel was located on the left bank of the lower Don River, Russia, in present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia....
 - Khazars Sintashta
Sintashta

The Sintashta fortified settlement in the southern Urals is dated to ca. 2000–1600 BC. It was excavated between 1968 and 1986 and gave its name to the Sintashta-Petrovka culture....
 - Proto-Aryans Tanais
Tanais

Tanais is the ancient name for the Don River, Russia in Russia. Strabo regarded it as the boundary between Europe and Asia.In antiquity, Tanais was also the name of a city in the Don river delta that reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Greeks called Lake Maeotis....
 - Ancient Greeks Tmutarakan
Tmutarakan

Tmutarakan is an ancient city that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov. It was situated on the Taman peninsula, in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia, roughly opposite Kerch....
 - Greeks/Khazars/Russians Ubsunur Hollow
Ubsunur Hollow

Ubsunur Hollow is a fragile mountain basin or depression located on the territorial border of Mongolia and the Tuva in the Russia. It is part of a combination of raised lands and depressions located throughout the Tannu-Ola Mountains and Altai Mountains mountainous regions....
 - nomadic tribes such as the Scythians, the Turks
Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia, and who mostly speak languages belonging to the Turkic languages....
 and the Huns
Huns

The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....


Ignateva Cave - Site of Paleolithic cave painting

Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....

See also: Archaeological sites in Serbia Curug
Curug

Curug is a village in the municipality of ?abalj, in the South Backa District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina....
Contra Margum (Kovin) Egeta (Brza Palanka) Gamzigrad-Felix Romuliana
Gamzigrad

Gamzigrad is a spa resort in Serbia, located south of the Danube, near Zajecar....
 (Zajecar) Horreum Margi (Cuprija) Justiniana Prima
Justiniana Prima

Justiniana Prima was a Byzantine Empire city. Its location is not known: it could have been in today southern Serbia near today's Leskovac, or near Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia....
  (Mala Kopasnica) Kalemegdan
Kalemegdan

Kalemegdan is a fortress and park in an urban area List of Belgrade neighborhoods of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad, Belgrade....
 (Belgrade) Lepenski Vir
Lepenski Vir

Lepenski Vir is an important Mesolithic archaeological site located in Serbia in the central Balkan peninsula. It consists of one large settlement with around ten satellite villages....
 (Donji Milanovac) Mediana
Mediana

Mediana is an important archeological site from the late Ancient Rome period located in the eastern suburb of the Serbian city of Ni?. It represents a luxurious residence with a highly organized economy....
 (Niš) Naissus (Niš) Petrovaradin Fortress
Petrovaradin fortress

Petrovaradin Fortress is a fortress in Novi Sad , Serbian province of Vojvodina, on the right bank of Danube river. The cornerstone of the present-day southern part of the fortress was laid on October 18, 1692, by Prince Croy....
Plocnik
Plocnik

Plocnik is a village in the municipality of Prokuplje, Toplica District, Republic of Serbia. According to the 2002 population census, it's populated by 182, all of whom declared Serbs....
Remesiana
Remesiana

Remesiana was an ancient city in what is now Serbia. Its modern name is Bela Palanka....
 (Bela Palanka) Rudna Glava
Rudna Glava

Rudna Glava is a mining site in present-day eastern Serbia that demonstrates early evidence of European copper mining and metallurgy, dating to the 5th millennium BC....
Singidunum
Singidunum

Singidunum was an ancient Roman city, first settled by the Celts Scordisci tribe in the 3rd century BC, and later garrisoned and fortified by the Ancient Rome who romanized the name....
 (Belgrade) Sirmium
Sirmium

Sirmium was an ancient city in Roman Pannonia. Sirmium originally was an Illyrians town conquered by the Ancient Rome in the 1st century BC. It was a very important town in the later Roman Empire, being the economic capital of Roman Pannonia and one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire....
 (Sremska Mitrovica) Starcevo
Starcevo

Starcevo can refer to:* Starcevo, a town in Serbia* Startsevo, a village in Bulgaria...
Taliata (Donji Milanovac) Taurunum (Zemun) Tašmajdan Park
Tašmajdan park

Ta?majdan Park , colloquially Ta?majdan or simply just Ta?, is a public park and the surrounding List of Belgrade neighborhoods of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia....
Trajan's Bridge
Trajan's bridge

Trajan's Bridge or Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube was a Roman Empire bridge, the first to be built over the lower Danube. For more than a thousand years, it was the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length....
Timacum Minus (Knjaževac) Viminacium
Viminacium

Viminacium was a major city of the Roman Empire province of Moesia , and the capital of Moesia Superior. Viminacium was the base camp of Legio VII Claudia, and hosted for some time the Legio IIII Flavia Felix....
 (Kostolac) Ulpiana
Ulpiana

Ulpiana was an ancient city located in what is today the disputed region of Kosovo. It was the capital of Dardania, an Illyrian kingdom. It dates back pre ancient Rome times and is also referred to in the Balkans as Moesia....


Slovakia
Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....

:Category:Archaeological sites in Slovakia

South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....

Blombos Cave
Blombos Cave

Blombos Cave is a cave in a limestone cliff on the Southern Cape coast in South Africa. It is an archaeology site made famous by the discovery there of two pieces of ochre engraved with abstract designs, 75,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells, and c....
Cango Caves
Cango Caves

The Cango Caves are located in Precambrian limestones at the foothills of the Swartberg range near the town of Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape Province of South Africa....
Coopers Cave South Africa
Coopers Cave South Africa

Geographical LocationCooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia filled cavities located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 40km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa....
Duinefontein
Duinefontein

Duinefontein 1 and 2 are early prehistoric archaeological sites near Cape Town in South AfricaThey have produced Acheulean stone tools and animal bones dating from between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago....
Gladysvale Cave South Africa
Gladysvale Cave South Africa

Gladysvale Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 13km Northeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about 45km North-Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa....
Hoedjiespunt
Hoedjiespunt

Hoedjiespunt is a Middle Pleistocene aged hominid fossil-bearing site on the West coast of South Africa, near the town of Saldanha Bay. The site is an ancient Brown Hyena lair dug into the side of a sand dune, located on a peninsula overlooking the Atlantic Ocean....
Klasies River Caves
Klasies River Caves

Klasies River Caves are a series of caves located to the east of the Klasies River mouth on the Tsitsikamma coast in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province at the southernmost tip of South Africa....
Kromdraai fossil site
Kromdraai fossil site

Kromdraai is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 2km east of the well known South African hominid-bearing site of Sterkfontein and about 45km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa....
Makapansgat
Makapansgat

Makapansgat is an archeological location at S 24? 9' 0" and E 29? 10' 59", within the Makapansgat Valley, northeast of Potgietersrus in Limpopo province, South Africa....
Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe

Mapungubwe was a city in what is now northern South Africa. Flourishing from 1050 AD to 1270 AD at the confluence of the Shashe River and Limpopo River rivers , it marked the center of a pre-Shona people kingdom which covered parts of modern-day Botswana and Zimbabwe....
Motsetsi
Motsetsi

Geographical LocationMotsetsi Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity located about 14km East of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 45km North-Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa....
Plovers Lake
Plovers Lake

Geographical LocationPlovers Lake Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity located about 4km Southeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 36km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa....
Sterkfontein
Sterkfontein

Sterkfontein is a set of limestone caves of special interest to paleontology-anthropologists located in Gauteng province, Northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa near the town of Krugersdorp....
Swartkrans
Swartkrans

Swartkrans is a location in South Africa, around 20 miles from Johannesburg.Swartkrans is a farm near to Sterkfontein, notable for being extremely rich in archaeology, particularly Hominidae remains....
Taung, North West
Taung, North West

Taung is a small town situated in the North West Province of South Africa. The name means place of the lion and was named after Tau, the chief of the Tswana speaking Legoya or BaTaung tribe....


Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....

Altamira
Altamira (cave)

Altamira is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands....
 Cave Talayotic sites
Talaiot

The talaiots, or talayots, are Bronze Age megaliths on the islands of Minorca and Majorca. They date from the late second millennium and early first millennium BC....


Sultanate of Oman

Amlah
Amlah

Amlah or ?Amlah , al-Zahirah province, Sultanate of Oman.The area around Amlah contains numerous archaeological sites. Those that are available to the public date from the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period to the late pre-Islamic period....
 burial ground Lizq fortified mountain settlement Ras al-Jins settlement and burial area Samad al-Shan
Samad al-shan

Samad al-Shan is a site in the central part of Oman in the Sharqiyah province where Late Iron Age remains were first identified, hence the Samad Culture or assemblage....
 burial area Shir burial ground

Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....

Adelsö
Adelsö

Adels? is an island in the middle of M?laren in Sweden, near southern and northern Bj?rkfj?rden. The administrative center of the important Viking settlement Birka was situated at Hovg?rden on Adels?....
Alby Birka
Birka

During the Viking Age, Birka , on the island of Bj?rk? in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central Europe and Eastern Europe and the Orient....
Gamla Uppsala
Gamla Uppsala

Gamla Uppsala is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 16,231 inhabitants in 1991.As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre....
Gene fornby
Gene fornby

Gene fornby is a reconstructed Iron Age settlement just outside of ?rnsk?ldsvik, Sweden. It was laid bare during archaeological excavations between 1977 and 1988....
Helgö
Helgö

Helg? is an island in lake M?laren, Sweden....
Sigtuna
Sigtuna

Sigtuna is a Urban areas of Sweden in the Uppland part of Stockholm County, central Sweden. It has a population of 7,000 and is the namesake of Sigtuna Municipality, even though the seat is in M?rsta with 23,000 inhabitants....
Uppåkra
Uppåkra

Upp?kra is a village located five kilometres south of Lund in Sk?ne in southernmost Sweden....
Valsgärde
Valsgärde

Valsg?rde or Vallsg?rde is a farm on the Fyris river, about three kilometres north of Gamla Uppsala, the ancient centre of the Swedish kings and of the pagan faith in Sweden....
Vendel
Vendel

Vendel is a parish in the Swedish province of Uppland.The village overlooks a long inland stretch of water, Vendelsj?n, near which the Vendel river has its confluence with the river Fyris....


Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....

La Tène
La Tène culture

The La T?ne culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La T?ne, Marin-Epagnier on the north side of Lake Neuch?tel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857....
, Iron Age
Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....


Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....

Bosra
Bosra

Bosra is an ancient city administratively belonging to the Daraa Governorate in southern Syria. It is a major archaeological site and has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site....
Ebla
Ebla

Ebla was an ancient city about southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late 3rd millennium BC, then again between 1800 BC and 1650 BC....
Palmyra
Palmyra

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates....
Tell Abu Hureyra
Tell Abu Hureyra

Tell Abu Hureyra was a site of an ancient settlement in the northern Levant or western Mesopotamia. It has been cited as showing the earliest known evidence of agriculture anywhere....
, Mesolithic
Mesolithic

The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age was a period in the development of human technology in between the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age and the Neolithic or New Stone Age....
Ugarit
Ugarit

Ugarit was an ancient cosmopolitan port city, sited on the Mediterranean coast. Ugarit sent tribute to Ancient Egypt and maintained trade and diplomatic connections with Cyprus , documented in the archives recovered from the site and corroborated by Mycenaean Greece and Cypriot pottery found there....
Mari
Mari, Syria

Mari was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria....
Qatna
Qatna

Qatna, The tell occupies 1 km?, which makes it one of the largest bronze Age towns in western Syria. The tell is located at the edge of the limestone-plateau of the Syrian desert towards the fertile Homs-Bassin....


Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....

Ban Chiang
Ban Chiang

Ban Chiang is an archeology site located in Amphoe Nong Han, Udon Thani Province, Thailand. It has been on the UNESCO world heritage list since 1992....
Ban Non Wat
Ban Non Wat

Ban Non Wat is a village in central Thailand, in the Amphoe Non Sung, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, located near the small city of Phimai. It has been the subject of recent excavation of what are thought to be late neolithic and early bronze age burials....


Tunisia
Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian Republic , is a country located in North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the southeast....

Carthage
Carthage

Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....


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....

Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias was a small city in Caria, Asia Minor. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, Turkey, about 230 km from Izmir.Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the ancient Greece goddess of love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias....
Aspendos
Aspendos

Aspendos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province of Turkey. It is located northeast of central Serik....
Aigai
Aigai, Turkey

*Aegae, city of the Aeolian dodecapolis, see Aigai which lies almost at the mid-point between the cities of Izmir, Manisa, Bergama and Aliaga.*Aegae, city in Cilicia...
Akdamar Island
Akdamar Island

Akdamar Island is a small island in Lake Van in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey of Turkey, about 0.7 km2 in size, situated about 3 km from the shoreline....
Akhisar
Akhisar

Akhisar is a county district and its town center in Manisa Province in the Aegean Region, Turkey region of Western Turkey. Akhisar is also the ancient city of Thyatira or Thyateira....
Alabanda
Alabanda

Alabanda – also h? Alabanda, ta Alabanda, Alabandeus, Alabandensis, Alabandenus, and for a time, Antiochia of the Chrysaorians – was an ancient city of Caria, Anatolia, the site of which is now located near Doganyurt , Aydin Province, in the Asian part of Turkey....
Alaca Höyük
Alaca Höyük

Alacah?y?k or Alaca H?y?k is the site of a Neolithic Age and Hittites settlement and is an important archaeological site. It is northeast of Bogazkale or Bogazk?y, where the ancient capital city Hattusa of the Hittite Empire was situated....
Alalakh
Alalakh

Alalakh , is the name of an ancient Amorite city and its associated city-state of the Amuq River, located in the Hatay Province region of southern Turkey, now represented by an extensive city-mound....
Alexandria Troas
Alexandria Troas

Alexandria Troas is an ancient Hellenistic civilization city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos ....
Alinda (Caria)
Alinda (Caria)

Alinda was an ancient inland city of Caria in Anatolia. It is situated on a hilltop which commands the modern-day town of Karpuzlu, Aydin Province, in western Turkey, and overlooks a fertile plain....
Alisar
Alisar

Alisar is a village in the Yozgat Province, Turkey. Near the village is the archaeological site of Alisar H?y?k....
Allianoi
Allianoi

Allianoi is an ancient spa settlement situated near Bergama in Turkey's Izmir Province. The site is located 18 kilometers to the northeast of Bergama, on the road to the town of Ivrindi....
Amuk, Antakya
Amuk, Antakya

The Amuk valley is located in the southern part of Turkey, in the Hatay Province, close to the city of Antakya . It is an archaeological site....
Anastasian Wall
Anastasian Wall

The Anastasian Wall or the Long Walls of Thrace is an ancient, stone and turf fortification located west of Istanbul, Turkey built by the Byzantine Empire during the late 5th century....
Ani
Ani

Ani is a ruined and uninhabited medieval city-site situated in the Turkey province of Kars Province, beside the border with Armenia. It was once the capital of a medieval Armenian people Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia that covered much of present day Armenia and eastern Turkey....
Antigonia (Syria)
Antigonia (Syria)

Antigonia also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia was a Hellenistic city in Seleucis, Syria, on the Orontes, founded by Antigonus I in 307 BC, and intended to be the capital of his empire; the site is approximately 7 km northeast of Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey....
Antioch
Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the nearer East and was a cradle of gentile hi...
Antioch on the Maeander
Antioch on the Maeander

Antiochia on the Maeander also Antioch on the Maeander , earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence and, though it was the site of a bridge over the Maeander had "little or no individual history" The scanty ruins are located o...
Antioch, Pisidia
Antioch, Pisidia

Antioch in Pisidia – alternatively Antiochia in Pisidia or Pisidian Antioch and in Roman Empire, Latin language: Antiochia Caesareia or Antiochia Caesaria – is a city in the Turkish Lakes Region, which is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Aegean Sea and Central Anatolian regions, and formerly on th...
Antiochia Lamotis
Antiochia Lamotis

Antiochia Lamotis or Antiochia in Isauria is a Hellenistic city in Cilicia, Anatolia at the mouth of Lamos . The site is on the coast a few km southwest of Erdemli, Mersin Province, Turkey....
Antiochia ad Cragum
Antiochia ad Cragum

Antiochia ad Cragum also known as Antiochetta or Latin: Antiochia Parva is an ancient Hellenistic city on Mount Cragus mountain overlooking the Mediterranean Sea coast, in the region of Cilicia Trachea, in Anatolia ....
Antiochia ad Pyramum
Antiochia ad Pyramum

Antiochia ad Pyramum was an ancient coastal city of Cilicia, on the Pyramus river, in Anatolia. The location of the city is on the Karatas Peninsula, Adana Province, Turkey, a few km from the city of Karatas....
Antiochia, Lydia
Antiochia, Lydia

Antiochia in Lydia was a Hellenistic city founded by Antiochus IV in Lydia, Anatolia . It is mentioned by the ancient geographer Stephanus of Byzantium as being located in Lydia, but its precise location is not currently known....
Apamea (Phrygia)
Apamea (Phrygia)

Apamea or Apameia – previously, Kibotos , h? Kib?tos or Cibotus – was an ancient city in Phrygia, Anatolia, founded by Antiochus I Soter , near, but on lower ground than, Celaenae ....
Apamea Myrlea
Apamea Myrlea

Apamea Myrlea, or Apamea Myrleon, was an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara, in Bithynia, Anatolia; the ruins are now found a few kilometers south of Mudanya, Bursa Province in the Asian part of Turkey....
Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias was a small city in Caria, Asia Minor. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, Turkey, about 230 km from Izmir.Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the ancient Greece goddess of love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias....
Apros Ariassos
Ariassos

Ariassos was a Pisidian city built at a height of 1050 meters in the Taurus Mountains.Ariassos is 48 km from Antalya along the Antalya-Burdur highway and before arriving at the village Dag, turn left and Ariassos is 1 km....
Arycanda
Arycanda

Arykanda is an ancient Lycian city, built upon five large terraces ascending a mountain slope, located near the small village of Aykiri?ay, on the Elmali-Finike road in Antalya province in south western Turkey....
Attalia Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük

?atalh?y?k was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, c 7500-5700 BCE. It is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date....
Çayönü
Çayönü

?ay?n? is a Neolithic settlement in southern Turkey inhabited around 7200 to 6600 BC. It is located forty kilometres north-west of Diyarbakir, at the foot of the Taurus Mountains mountains....
Cebrene
Cebrene

Cebrene – also spelled Kebrene or Kevrin, and for a time called Alexandria and also Antiochia in Troad – was an ancient city in the Troad, a region of northwest Anatolia....
Ceramus
Ceramus

Ceramus or Keramos was a city on the north coast of the Gulf of G?kova—named for this city—in Caria, in southwest Asia Minor; its ruins can be found outside the modern village of ?ren, Mugla Province, Turkey....
Corycus
Corycus

Corycus was an ancient city in Cilicia Trachaea, Anatolia, located at the mouth of the Calycadnus ; the site is now occupied by the town of Kizkalesi , Mersin Province, Turkey....
Cremna, Pisidia
Cremna, Pisidia

Cremna was a town in Pisidia. It was first taken by Amyntas of Galatia, commander of the Galatian auxiliary army of Brutus and Cassius, who became king of Galatia and Pisidia on going over to the side of Mark Antony....
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük

?atalh?y?k was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, c 7500-5700 BCE. It is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date....
 ceramic Neolithic Digda
Digda

The name Digda is a Lydian word of unknown significance. This took on the Turkish form Adagide, which remained the name of the town until quite recently, when the name was officially changed to Ovakent....
Dorylaeum
Dorylaeum

Dorylaeum was an ancient city in Anatolia. It is now in ruins near the city of Eskisehir, Turkey.The city existed under the Phrygians but may have been much older....
Edessa, Mesopotamia
Edessa, Mesopotamia

Edessa is the historical name of a Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people town in northern Mesopotamia, refounded on an ancient site by Seleucus I Nicator....
Ephesus
Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, in the region known as Ionia during the period known as Classical Greece. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League....
Elaiussa Sebaste
Elaiussa Sebaste

Elaiussa Sebaste or Elaeousa Sebaste was an ancient Roman Empire town located from Mersin in the direction of Silifke in Cilicia on the southern coast of Anatolia ....