Ancient Elis
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Elis or Eleia was an ancient polis in the northwestern Peloponnese in Greece.
Ruins of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Elis (city)
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Elis was the capital city of the ancient polis of Elis, and at the time of Pausanias one of the most populous and splendid cities of the ancient Greek world.
Ancient Elis
…one. This also entailed a synoecism, in which the various communities within the Elean orbit merged into a single political unit, with its capital Elis. Elis annexed most of Triphylia in the mid-fifth century BC, except for Lepreum in the south. Sometime afterwards, Lepreum was conquered as well. Over…
Remains of the theatre of Elis