Lelantine plain (Euboea) 10 Vasiliko - Λήλαντον πεδίον

Λήλαντον πεδίον - Lelantine plain, fertile alluvial plain, much fought over, on the Lelantos river between Chalcis and Eretria. in Euboia Central Greece
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Latitude: 38.440000
Longitude: 23.660000
Confidence: Low (20130000)

Greek name: Λήλαντον πεδίον
Place ID: 383238LLel
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Region: Central Greece
Country: Greece
Department: Evvoia
Mod: Vasiliko

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Modern Description: The rich and fertile Lelantine Plain, recalled in the Hymn to Apollo for its lush vineyards, begins just beyond. In the 8th and 7th centuries BC, the area was the subject of a deadly territorial rivalry between Chalcis and Eretria. The area's value was also appreciated in later epochs and the landscape is punctuated with several Venetian towers and forts which combined to guard its agricultural activity and inhabitants, as well as protecting the southern approaches to Chalcis. At the centre of Vasilikó (6 km) is a well-preserved tower; there are two more between the villages of Mýtikas and Phýlla (8 km); and a conspicuous castle above the latter, built on an ancient enceinte. The tower at Vasilikó was occupied by the Turks in 1470 during their siege of Negroponte.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelantine_Plain
Wikidata ID: Q165570

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands
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Homeric Hymn to Apollo§207  foot on Kenaion in Euboea, famed for ships: you stood in the Lelantine plain, but it pleased not your heart to make a temple there -1000
Callimachus, Hymn to Delos§283  of the Malian land; and thence they sail across to the goodly Lelantian plain of the Abantes; and then not long -1000
Theognis, Elegies§891  Alas for weakness! Cerinthus is destroyed, and the good vinelands of Lelantus are laid waste; the good men are banished and evil persons order -550
Theophrastus, Enquiry Into Plants§8.8.4  not in fat soils; thus in Euboea they do not occur at Lelanton, but only about Kanethos and in districts of like character. -325
Strabo, Geography§1.3.16  a chasm was rent open in the earth in the plain of Lelanto, from which poured a river of burning mud. -1
Strabo, Geography§10.1.9  Above the city of the Chalcidians is situated the Lelantine Plain. In this plain are fountains of hot water suited to the -1
Strabo, Geography§10.1.12  were in accord with one another, and when differences arose concerning the Lelantine Plain they did not so completely break off relations as to wage -1
Strabo, Geography§10.3.6  settled at Chalcis, but since they were continually at war for the Lelantine Plain and the enemy would catch them by the front hair and drag -1
Plutarch, Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, Moralia§153f  life in one of the battles fought for the possession of the Lelantine plain. Now, because the writings of those poets were composed in verse, -1
Aelian, Varia Historia§6.1  meddled not with the ground consecrated to Athena in the place named Lelantus . The rest of the country they let out, and brought away -1
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