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Metapa

Ancient city · Greece

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
38.524, 21.582
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Этолии

History

Metapa was a town in ancient Aetolia, situated on the northern shore of Lake Trichonis, at the entrance of a narrow defile, and 59stadia from Thermum. It was burnt by Philip V of Macedon, on his invasion of Aetolia, in 218 BC, as he returned from the capture of Thermum.

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