Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
Phocaea
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Phocaea
Phocaea
, or
Phokaia
(; modern-day
Foça
in
Turkey
) was an ancient
Ionian
Greek
city on the western coast of
Anatolia
.
Greek colonists
from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (modern day
Marseille
, in
France
) in 600 BC,
Emporion
(modern day
Empúries
, in
Catalonia
,
Spain
) in 575 BC and Elea (modern day
Velia
, in
Campania
,
Italy
) in 540 BC.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License