Lycosura
Lycosura was a city in the ancient Parrhasia region of south Arcadia said by Pausanias to be the oldest city in the world, although there is no evidence for its existence before the fourth century BCE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nefasdicere, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city of Arcadia, Greece
- Also known as: “Lykosoura”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lykosoura and Isaris.
Isaris
Village
Photo: Anna Diderot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Isaris is a village and a community in the municipality of Megalopoli, Arcadia, Greece. It is situated in the mountains west of the Alfeios valley, at about 750 m elevation. Isaris is situated 3 km southwest of Lycosura.
Kastanochóri
Village
Kastanochori is a village in the municipality of Megalopoli, Arcadia, Greece. It is situated in the southeastern foothills of mount Lykaion, at about 750 m elevation. It is 2 km east of Lykaio, 3 km southwest of Isoma Karyon and 10 km west of Megalopoli. Kastanochóri is situated 3 km north of Lycosura.
Lycosura
- Categories: polis, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Megalopoli, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.38904° or 37° 23′ 21″ northLongitude
22.02985° or 22° 1′ 47″ eastElevation
559 metres (1,834 feet)Open location code
8G9492QH+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1610255554OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Lycosura” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Лйкосоура”
- Catalan: “Licosura”
- Catalan: “Lycosura”
- Cebuano: “Lykosoura”
- Chinese: “吕科苏拉”
- Chinese: “呂科蘇拉”
- Chinese: “呂諾蘇剌”
- Dutch: “Lycosura”
- Finnish: “Lykosura”
- French: “Lycosoura”
- French: “Lycosura”
- German: “Lykosoura”
- German: “Lykosura”
- Greek: “Λυκόσουρα”
- Japanese: “リュコシュラ”
- Japanese: “リュコスラ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lykosura”
- Norwegian: “Lykosura”
- Romanian: “Lycosura”
- Romanian: “Lykosoura”
- Russian: “Ликосура”
- Spanish: “Licosura”
- Swedish: “Lykosura”
- Turkish: “Lycosura”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lycosura”. Photo: Nefasdicere, CC BY 2.5.