Map of every Greek city founded outside of Greece

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  1. I think there are more that are not shown in this map. Some in Spain, some in northern Africa and also more eastward towards Afganistan.

    Also, in the territory depicted in the map there should be more, for example in Romania I know 3 different settlements colonized by the greeks, but there is only one dot.

  2. What about Mariupol in Ukraine which has a greek -polis name.

    Greek influenced name but it was founded before this time? Or after?

  3. Fun fact:
    There’s a town in Slovenia (Vrhnika, Ancient Nauportus) that claims origin from Jason and the Argonauts who supposedly camped and dismantled their ship there before carrying it over land to the Adriatic. The town’s coat of arms still sports a Greek bireme, the Argo.

  4. Yeah mainstream thought doesn’t really give the Greeks enough credit. They were incredible explorers for their time.

  5. Fun fact: ancient Greece was made up of many races that were combined by some historian to form “greek” majority of the modern Greeks only inherit 1/100of this

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