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Hippola

Ancient city · Greece

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
36.504, 22.362
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

Detected automatically from the text: ancient town of Lakonia, Greece

History

Hippola was an Ancient Greek settlement on the Peloponnese, in the region of Laconia on the Mani Peninsula. It was northwest of Cape Matapan. Hippola was in ruins by the time of Pausanias in the 2nd century CE. It contained a temple to Athena Hippolaitis.

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