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Encyclopedia > Callipolis

Callipolis is the commonly used latinized form of Kallipolis, the Greek name of several ancient cities, notably:

  • Kallipolis in Caria
  • Kallipolis, a Hellespont-port on the Thracian Chersonesus, the modern Gallipoli
  • Callipolis in Calabria, southern Italy, a port on a peninsula into the Tarentine Gulf, which was granted by the Roman republic the status of Socii

Location of Caria Caria (Greek Καρία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a region of Asia Minor, situated south of Ionia, and west of Phrygia and Lycia. ... Hellespont (i. ... Satellite image of the Gallipoli peninsula and surrounding area Gallipoli, called Gelibolu in modern Turkish, (Greek: Καλλίπολις), is a town in northwestern Turkey. ... Calabria, formerly Brutium, is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ...

Sources and references

  • Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte (in German)


 

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