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    Lipari (redirect from Lipara)
    Lipara prospered, but in 304 BC Agathokles took the town by treachery and is said to have lost all of his pillage from it in a storm at sea. Lipara became...
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    The Battle of the Lipari Islands or Battle of Lipara was a naval encounter fought in 260 BC during the First Punic War. A squadron of 20 Carthaginian ships...
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  • In Greek mythology, Lipara (Ancient Greek: Λιπάρα means "oily, shiny with oil") was one of the Hesperides and sister to Asterope, Chrysothemis, Hygieia...
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    Lipara lucens is a species of frit fly in the family Chloropidae. It is found in Europe. It forms galls on Phragmites australis plants. "Lipara lucens...
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  • Procometis lipara is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded...
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  • Lipara is a genus of flies in the family Chloropidae. Among the Palearctic species, a specific community of bees and wasps make their nests in the galls...
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  • Timasitheus (Ancient Greek: Τιμασίθεος) of Lipara (modern Lipari) was a Greek local archon of Magna Graecia who lived around 400 BC. He is mentioned by...
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  • Baliochila lipara, the Lipara buff, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Malawi and from Zimbabwe to the coast of eastern Kenya. It...
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  • Thioscelis lipara is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by W. Donald Duckworth in 1967. It is found in Amazonas, Brazil. The wingspan...
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  • Myconita lipara is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by John David Bradley in 1953. It is found in Fiji. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching...
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    Magna Graecia Aeolian Islands Didyme Euonymos Ereikousa Hycesia Lipara/Meligounis Phoenicusa Strongyle Therassía Cyrenaica Balagrae Barca Berenice Cyrene...
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    Agrotis obesa (redirect from Agrotis lipara)
    Family: Noctuidae Genus: Agrotis Species: A. obesa Binomial name Agrotis obesa Boisduval, 1829 Synonyms Agrotis lipara Rambur, 1848 Euxoa obesa Euxoa scytha...
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    Asina, lost the first naval skirmish of the war against Hannibal Gisco at Lipara, but his colleague Gaius Duilius won a great victory at Mylae. He destroyed...
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  • derived its name from him. His son Liparus, founded and gave his name to Lipara. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Auson Harry Thurston...
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  • Islands, was said to be Aeolus' island. Others associated the island of Lipara (modern Lipari) with Aeolia. Hard, p. 494; Tripp, s.v. Aeolus 2; Grimal...
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    attests the following names as four: Asterope, Chrysothemis, Hygieia, and Lipara; on another seven names as Aiopis, Antheia, Donakis, Calypso, Mermesa, Nelisa...
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  • strait between Italy and Sicily, Scipio Asina received the information that Lipara, in the Lipari Islands, was about to change to the Roman side. Eager to...
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    Magna Graecia Aeolian Islands Didyme Euonymos Ereikousa Hycesia Lipara/Meligounis Phoenicusa Strongyle Therassía Cyrenaica Balagrae Barca Berenice Cyrene...
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    domain. Luigi Bernabò Brea, Madeleine Cavalier (Eds.). (1980). Meligunìs Lipára IV. L’acropoli di Lipari nella preistoria. Palermo: Flaccovio. Martinelli...
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    Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Μελιγουνίς: "Meligounis: this is what the island Lipara was called. Also one of the daughters of Aphrodite." Apollodorus, 1.9.25...
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    north-east coast of Sicily, in an attempt to seize the islands' main port, Lipara. The Carthaginian fleet was commanded by Hannibal Gisco, the general who...
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    Leontinoi Province of Syracuse Lentini 729 BC Naxos (Sicily) Theokles? Lipara Metropolitan City of Messina Lipari 580–576 BC Knidos, Rhodes Pentathlos...
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    fought against the Carthaginians in Sicily, taking the towns of Himera and Lipara, and receiving a triumph for his victories in the former year. He was censor...
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  • pictured and named on an ancient vase together with Asterope, Hygieia and Lipara. Chrysothemis, daughter of Danaus. She married (and killed) Asterides, son...
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    Magna Graecia Aeolian Islands Didyme Euonymos Ereikousa Hycesia Lipara/Meligounis Phoenicusa Strongyle Therassía Cyrenaica Balagrae Barca Berenice Cyrene...
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  • altar dedicated to them. Clymene, one of the daughters of King Aeolus of Lipara, the keeper of the winds. She had six brothers namely: Periphas, Agenor...
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    Knidians acquired considerable wealth, and were able to colonize the island of Lipara, and founded a city on Corcyra Nigra in the Adriatic. They ultimately submitted...
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    Magna Graecia Aeolian Islands Didyme Euonymos Ereikousa Hycesia Lipara/Meligounis Phoenicusa Strongyle Therassía Cyrenaica Balagrae Barca Berenice Cyrene...
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    small island, he returned the favor by banishing Attalus to the island of Lipara. Northeastern Gaul became subject to even greater Frankish influence, while...
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