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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Perciformes Family: Kyphosidae Genus: Girella Species: G. nigricans Binomial name Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860) Synonyms Camarina nigricans Ayres, 1860...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    the Portuguese crowberry (Portuguese: camarinha; Galician: camariña); Spanish: camarina, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae endemic...
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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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    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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    Zankle, Leontini, Catana, Naxos, besides neighbouring Sicel lands and Camarina had fallen under Gelan control. Gelo, successor of Hippocrates, captured...
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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Kamarina, Camarina, Kamerina or Camerina may refer to: Places Kamarina, Greece, a village in Preveza regional unit, in the region of Epirus Kamarina, Sicily...
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    Acrae seventy years after Syracuse, Casmenae nearly twenty after Acrae. Camarina was first founded by the Syracusans, close upon a hundred and thirty-five...
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  • Thermae, losing 4,000–6,000 killed. Hamilcar went on to capture Enna and Camarina in the aftermath. Hamilcar, the commander of the Carthaginian land forces...
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  • -ana, -ara, -ssus and -ssa are often found in Sicanian place names (e.g. Camarina, Telmissus and Cimissa), and are thus proposed as a good starting point...
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    Sixto- Fisterra The beach of Area Branca - Ponte do Porto - Camariñas The beach of Reira - Camariñas The beach of Traba - Boaño The beach of Morro - Niñóns...
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    metropoleis for new colonies such as the Syracusans, who founded the city of Camarina in the south of Sicily; or the Zancleans, who led the founding of the colony...
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