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Sikeliot
01-13-2013, 09:00 PM
Many southern Italian town names are transliterated directly from Greek. I thought I'd take a list to compile some of them here. Let me know if I missed any.
Sicily:
Hennaion -- Enna
Messene -- Messina
Syrakoúsai -- Syracuse
Katáne -- Catania
Panormos -- Palermo
Akragas -- Agrigento
Drepanon -- Trapani
Tauromenion -- Taormina
Agyrion -- Agira
Calabria:
Rhégion -- Reggio Calabria
Croton -- Crotone
Katantheros -- Catanzaro
Apulia:
Barion/Varion -- Bari
Campania:
Neapolis -- Naples
Peyrol
01-14-2013, 09:15 PM
http://www.riace.it/territorio/cartina%20magna%20grecia.JPG
http://hannibalbarca.webspace.virginmedia.com/Graphics/Magna-Graecia-Sicily-map.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/1/1b/Sicilia_greca.JPG
don't forget also Ancona in the Marche and Adria in Veneto (both Siracusan colonies).
Scholarios
02-02-2013, 09:13 AM
Aspromonte, Calabria(white mountain in combined Greek and Italian)
Kalimera, Apulia (Good Morning in Greek)
Gallipoli, Apulia (Beautiful City)
Galliciano, Calabria (Kallikon, nice place, beautiful place)
Turkophagos
02-02-2013, 09:15 AM
Posillipo- Pausilypon (The Greeks first named this rocky, wooded height at the western end of the Bay of Naples Pausílypon, meaning "respite from worry".)
Linet
02-02-2013, 09:18 AM
:rose: subscribing
Scholarios
02-02-2013, 09:24 AM
Some fascinating history of Galliciano in Calabria, populated in the 10th Century by Greeks from Macedonia, fleeing strife in the Byzantine borderlands:
http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr267/vertken/galliciano.gif
alfieb
02-03-2013, 02:18 PM
Sicily -
Giardini-Naxos (Naxos)
Cattolica Eraclea (Heraclea Minor)
Cefalu (Cephalaedium)
Assoro (Assoros)
Noto (Neotum)
Sciacca (Thermae Selinontae)
among others.
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