Grekisk stad elis
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Ancient Elis, the largest city and capital of the homonymous city-state, was built on the north banks of the Peneus River, between the mountainous part of Elis (Akroreia) and its coastal lowlands (Elis Koile). The site was inhabited almost continuously from the beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic (/,) until the end of the Early Byzantine period (seventh century AD), when the city was abandoned. Aetolos Oxylos fryst vatten considered the city's mythical founder (twelfth-eleventh centuries BC). He allegedly took advantage of the Dorian invasion in beställning to subordinate the area's early inhabitants and founded the first settlement. The city thrived in the early historical period (eleventh-tenth centuries BC), during the late Archaic and early Classical periods (sixth-fifth centuries BC), and in the Early långnovell period (second century BC - early third century AD).
Large numbers of flint tools from surface layers suggest that the site was inhabited since the Palaeolithic. Habitation concentrated primarily in the area of the later theatre at the end of the Neolithic, and on the acropolis during the late third and early second millennia BC. The Mycenaean period saw the development of several s
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Elis (city)
Ancient city-state, capital city of the district of Elis
Elis (Ancient Greek: Ἦλις, Doric Greek: Ἆλις, in the local dialect: Ϝᾶλις,[1] Modern Greek: Ήλιδα, romanized:&#;Elida) was the capital city of the ancient polis (city-state) of Elis, in ancient Greece. It was situated in the northwest of the Peloponnese, to the west of Arcadia. Just before the Peneius emerges from the hills into the plain, the valley of the river is contracted on the south by a projecting hill of a peaked form, and nearly feet (&#;m) in height. This hill was the acropolis of Elis, and commanded as well the narrow valley of the Peneius as the open plain beyond. The ancient city lay at the foot of the hill, and extended across the river, as Strabo says that the Peneius flowed through the city;[2] but since no remains are now found on the right or northern bank, it is probable that all the public buildings were on the left bank of the river, more especially as Pausanias does not make any allusion to the river in his description of the city.
Elis is mentioned as a town of the Epeii by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad;[3] but in the earliest ti
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Ancient Elis
City state in Ancient Greece
This article is about the ancient region and city state. For the capital city, see Elis (city). For the modern region, see Elis (regional unit).
"Eleans" redirects here. For the Greek colony Elea in Italy, see Velia. For the Greek colony Elaea in Asia, see Elaea (Aeolis).
"Ilida" redirects here. For the municipality in Elis regional unit, see Ilida (municipality).
Region of Ancient Greece
Elis ([1]) or Eleia (Greek: Ήλιδα, romanized:&#;Ilida, Attic Greek: Ἦλις, romanized:&#;Ēlis/ɛ̂ːlis/; Elean: Ϝᾶλις/wâːlis/, ethnonym: Ϝᾱλείοι[2]) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis.
Elis is in southern Greece on the Peloponnese, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea. Over the course of the archaic and classical periods, the polis "city-state" of Elis controlled much of the region of Elis, most probably through unequal treaties with other cities; many inhabitants of Elis were Perioeci—autonomous free non-citizens. Perioeci, unlike other Spartans, could travel freely between cities.[3] Thus