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Hypana

Ancient city · Greece

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
37.539, 21.755
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Triphylia

History

Hypana or Hypaneia (Ὑπάνεια) was a town in the interior of Triphylia in ancient Elis. It was taken by Philip V of Macedon in the Social War. Its inhabitants had been transferred to Elis when Strabo wrote. Hypana is mentioned along with Typaneae near the rivers Dalion and Acheron, tributaries of Alpheus. Both these towns must have been situated in the mountains of Triphylia.

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