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Olympia

Olympia is a town and UNESCO World Heritage Site in , . This was the site of the original Olympic Games from 776 BCE. The games, held every four years in honor of the Greek god Zeus, lasted through the entire Classical Age until the late 4th century CE.
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  • Opening hours: 8:00 AM—8:00 PM
  • Type: Park
  • Description: town on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece
  • Also known as: “Ancient Olympia”, “Archaia Olympia”, “Arkhaía Olimbía”, “Olimbía Arkhaía”, “Olymbía”, and “Olympia, Greece”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Statue of Zeus at Olympia and Temple of Zeus.

Work of art
Photo: Quatremère de Quincy, Public domain.
The was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m tall, made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the there.

Ruins
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The was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order.

Ruins
Photo: Jedudedek, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The , or Heraion, is an ancient Archaic Greek temple at Olympia, , that was dedicated to Hera, queen of the Greek gods. It is the oldest temple at Olympia and one of the most venerable in all of Greece.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ancient Olympia and Archaia Pisa.

Town
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Olympia, officially Archaia Olympia, is a small town in on the peninsula in , famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name.

Village
Pisa is a village situated 2.15 kilometres to the east of Olympia, Greece, located on the northwest side of the Peloponnesus peninsula. Currently it is not politically independent but it is a community of the municipality of Ancient Olympia, in the regional unit of .

Village
is a village in the municipality of Olympia, Elis, . It is 1.5 km northeast of Olympia.

Olympia

Latitude
37.6382° or 37° 38′ 18″ north
Longitude
21.6314° or 21° 37′ 53″ east
Population
1,210
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
Open location code
8G93JJQJ+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39984003
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
264637
Wiki­data ID
Q38888
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Olympia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Olimpia”
  • Afrikaans: “Olympia”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ὀλυμπία”
  • Arabic: “أركيا أوليمبيا، إليا”
  • Arabic: “أوليمبيا”
  • Armenian: “Օլիմպիա բնակավայր”
  • Asturian: “Olimpia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Olimpiya”
  • Basque: “Olinpia”
  • Belarusian: “Алімпія”
  • Breton: “Olimpia”
  • Bulgarian: “Олимпия”
  • Catalan: “Olímpia”
  • Cebuano: “Ancient Olympia (arkiyolohiyang dapit sa Gresya)”
  • Cebuano: “Archaía Olympía”
  • Chinese: “奥林匹亚考古遗址”
  • Chinese: “奥林匹亚遗址”
  • Chinese: “奧林匹亞”
  • Corsican: “Olimpia”
  • Croatian: “Olimpija”
  • Czech: “Olympia”
  • Czech: “Olympie”
  • Danish: “Olympia”
  • Dutch: “Olimpia”
  • Dutch: “Olympia”
  • Dutch: “Olympía”
  • Esperanto: “Olimpio”
  • Estonian: “Olümpia”
  • Faroese: “Olympia”
  • Finnish: “Olympia”
  • French: “Olympie”
  • Galician: “Olimpia”
  • Georgian: “ოლიმპია”
  • German: “Archaía Olympía”
  • German: “Olympia”
  • Greek: “Αρχαία Ολυμπία”
  • Greek: “Ολυμπια”
  • Greek: “Ολυμπία”
  • Hebrew: “אולימפיה”
  • Hindi: “ओलम्पिया”
  • Hindi: “ओलिम्पिया”
  • Hungarian: “Olümpia”
  • Icelandic: “Ólympía”
  • Ido: “Olimpia”
  • Indonesian: “Olympia, Yunani”
  • Indonesian: “Olympia”
  • Irish: “Oilimpia”
  • Italian: “Olimpia”
  • Italian: “Sito archeologico di Olimpia”
  • Japanese: “オリュンピア”
  • Japanese: “オリンピア”
  • Japanese: “オリンピアの考古遺跡”
  • Kannada: “ಒಲಂಪಿಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Олимпия”
  • Kirghiz: “Олимпия”
  • Korean: “올륌피아”
  • Korean: “올림피아”
  • Latin: “Olympia”
  • Latvian: “Olimpija”
  • Lithuanian: “Olimpija”
  • Low German: “Olympia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Olympia”
  • Macedonian: “Олимпија”
  • Maithili: “ओलिम्पिया,ग्रीस”
  • Malay: “Olympia Purba”
  • Malay: “Olympia, Yunani”
  • Malay: “Olympia”
  • Malayalam: “Olympia”
  • Malayalam: “ഒളിമ്പിയ, ഗ്രീസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഒളിമ്പിയ”
  • Maltese: “Olimpja”
  • Maltese: “Olympia”
  • Marathi: “ऑलिंपिया”
  • Mazanderani: “ولئیمپیا”
  • Neapolitan: “Olimpia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Olympia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Olympia i Hellas”
  • Norwegian: “Olympia”
  • Ossetian: “Олимпи”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਲਿੰਪੀਆ”
  • Persian: “المپیا”
  • Polish: “Olimpia”
  • Portuguese: “Olímpia”
  • Portuguese: “Sítio Arqueológico de Olímpia”
  • Romanian: “Olympia, Grecia”
  • Romanian: “Olympia”
  • Romanian: “Templul din Olimp”
  • Russian: “Олимпия”
  • Scots: “Olympia, Greece”
  • Scots: “Olympia”
  • Serbian: “Ολυμπία”
  • Serbian: “Олимпија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Olimpija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Olympia”
  • Sicilian: “Olimpia”
  • Slovak: “Olympia”
  • Slovenian: “Olimpija, Grčija”
  • Slovenian: “Olimpija”
  • Spanish: “Olimpia”
  • Swedish: “Ancient Olympia (fornlämning i Grekland)”
  • Swedish: “Olympia”
  • Tamil: “ஒலிம்பியா, கிரீசு”
  • Tamil: “ஒலிம்பியா”
  • Tatar: “Олимпия борынгы изге каласы археологик урыны”
  • Thai: “โอลิมเปีย”
  • Turkish: “Olimpia”
  • Turkish: “Olimpiya”
  • Ukrainian: “Олімпія”
  • Urdu: “اولمپیا، یونان”
  • Uzbek: “Olimpiya”
  • Venetian: “Olimpia”
  • Venetian: “Olinpia”
  • Venetian: “Ołinpia”
  • Venetian: “Ołìnpia”
  • Vietnamese: “Olympia, Hy Lạp”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Olympia, Gresya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Olympia”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥林匹亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧林匹亞”
  • “Ολυμπία”

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