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Typaneae

Ancient city · Greece

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
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Coordinates
37.509, 21.806
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Triphylia, Greece

History

Typaneae or Typaniai, also Latinized as Tympaneae, was a town of Triphylia in ancient Elis, a possible successor settlement to Homeric Aepy. It is mentioned by Strabo along with Hypana near the rivers Dalion and Acheron, tributaries of Alpheus. It was taken by Philip V of Macedon in the Social War. It was situated in the mountains in the interior of the country.

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