Kamarina, Sicily (redirect from Marsh of Camarina)
Kamarina or Camarina (Ancient Greek: Καμάρινα) was an ancient city on the southern coast of Sicily in Magna Graecia. The ruins of the site and an archaeological...
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Camariñas is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Terra...
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In Greek mythology, Camarina (Ancient Greek: Καμαρινα Kamarina) was an Oceanid, as a daughter of the Titan of the Sea, Oceanus, possibly by his sister-wife...
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The siege and subsequent sacking of Camarina took place in 405 BC during the Sicilian Wars. The conflict began as a response to the offensive activities...
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Antaeotricha camarina is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana. The wingspan is about...
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Agathotoma camarina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter...
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Girella nigricans (redirect from Camarina nigricans)
Perciformes Family: Kyphosidae Genus: Girella Species: G. nigricans Binomial name Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860) Synonyms Camarina nigricans Ayres, 1860...
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Psaumis of Camarina (Greek: Ψαῦμις Καμαριναῖος, romanized: Psaûmis Kamarinaîos) was a charioteer who won the Olympic four-horse chariot race (tethrippon)...
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Endoxyla lituratus (redirect from Xyrena camarina)
casuarinae Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 Xyrena camarinae Walker, 1856 Xyrena camarina Walker, 1856 Eudoxyla insulana T.P. Lucas, 1898 Dictyocossus striata Houlbert...
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Eupolemus. The passage claimed that Abraham was born in the Babylonian city Camarina, which it notes was also called "Uria". (Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus...
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December 3, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2013. "Chapter 18. The Marsh of Camarina – Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". e-reading.club...
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List of ancient Greek tyrants (section Camarina)
Clearchus of Sparta, 411-409 BC, 404-401 BC Hecataeus, fl. 323 BC Psaumis of Camarina, fl. c. 460 BC Apollodorus, 279-276 BC (executed) Euarchus, 729 BC-?, founder...
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of the expedition after Hannibal's death and sacked Akragas, Gela and Camarina while fighting off determined Greek opposition led by successive leaders...
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of the Camarinese coinage depicting Athena, Demeter and Kore, the nymph Camarina, Zeus and the God Hipparis. Finally, the various researches are documented...
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Elder was again at war against Carthage and, although losing Gela and Camarina, kept that power from capturing the whole of Sicily.[citation needed] After...
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the Portuguese crowberry (Portuguese: camarinha; Galician: camariña); Spanish: camarina, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae endemic...
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Zankle, Leontini, Catana, Naxos, besides neighbouring Sicel lands and Camarina had fallen under Gelan control. Gelo, successor of Hippocrates, captured...
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diplomats from both camps went to Camarina in an attempt to form an alliance with that city. Hermocrates wanted Camarina and the other cities to unite with...
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Barqueiro, Ortigueira, Cedeira, Ferrol, Betanzos, A Coruña, Corme e Laxe and Camariñas. The Rías Baixas, found south of Fisterra, include Corcubión, Muros e...
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wins the stadion race for a second time at the 72nd Olympic Games. When Camarina, a Syracusan colony, rebels, Hippocrates, the tyrant of Gela, intervenes...
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along the south coast. In mid-July, somewhere between the friendly city of Camarina and Cape Passaro, the south-east corner of Sicily, a sudden summer storm...
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Olympian 4, 'For Psaumis of Camarina', is an ode by the 5th century BC Greek poet Pindar. Camarina had been founded by Syracuse in 599 BC. Destroyed by...
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Santa Croce Camerina (Sicilian: Santa Cruci Camarina) is a town and comune in the province of Ragusa, Sicily, in southern Italy. As of 2017 its population...
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killing 4,000–6,000. Hamilcar went on to seize Enna, in central Sicily, and Camarina, in the south east, dangerously close to Syracuse. Hamilcar seemed close...
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Zancle (now known as Messina). He also captures the Syracusan city of Camarina, but is prevented from capturing Syracuse itself when Corinth and Corcyra...
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also in Syracuse and Camarina, and he used the Demeter cult as well as the fight against Carthage to unite Syracuse, Gela and Camarina. After his successful...
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counterattacking the Romans and seizing Enna. Hamilcar continues south to Camarina, in Syracusan territory, to try to convince the Syracusans to rejoin the...
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da Morte: Arou, Camelle, Camariñas [Wikidata] Balarés Barizo Cabo da Nave Cabo de Laxe Cabo Touriñán Cabo Vilán Caión Camariñas Camelle Corme Fisterra Illas...
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namorar or "love plant"), locally endangered, and an important number of camariñas (galician common name for Corema album), an endemic species from the Iberian...
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successful rescue operation they sailed back to Sicily. Off the coast of Camarina their fleet was struck by a violent storm and many ships were wrecked with...
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