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- The city of MycenaeMycenae (in Ancient Greek Mykaenai or Μυκηναι, pronounced roughly Moo-kair-nigh in Modern Greek Mikenes or Μυκενες), is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90km sout, located in the northeast Peloponnesus, came to dominate the rest of AchaeaThis article is about the modern Greek district Achaea. See Achaea (province) for the province of the Roman empire. See also Achaeans, a Homeric name for Hellenes. See AchaeaMud for the MUD created by Iron Realms Entertainment. Statistics Capital: Patra, and formed the Mycenaean Civilization.
- 1556 BC - Cecrops builds or rebuilds AthensAcropolis in central Athens is home to ancient monuments of Athens — a mainstay of its thriving tourism industry Athens ( Greek: Athina is the capital of Greece, and also the capital of the Attica region of Greece. A cosmopolitan modern city, Athens is al following the great floodA flood (in Old English flod a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the wor of DeucalionIn Greek mythology, Deucalion or Deukalion ("new-wine sailor") was the son of Prometheus and Clymene or Celaeno. When the wrath of Zeus was ignited against the whole of the Pelasgians, the original pre-Hellenic inhabitants of Greece, Zeus decided to bring and the end of the Golden ageA golden age is period in a field of endeavour where great tasks were accomplished. The term originated from early Greek and Roman poets who used to refer to a time when mankind lived in a utopia and was pure. Within sequences or cycles of eras, the golde. He becomes the first of several Kings of Athens whose life account is considered part of Greek mythology.
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