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Limnaea

Limnaea or Limnaia was a city in ancient Acarnania at the southeast corner of the Ambraciot Gulf, on the very frontier of Acarnania towards Aetolia. It site is near the modern town of Amphilochia.
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Photo: Spiros Baracos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient city of Acarnania, Greece
  • Also known as: “Limnaia” and “Ακρόπολη Αρχαίας Λιμναίας”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amfilochia and Sardinia, Aitoloakarnania.

Town
Photo: ΞΗΡΟΜΕΡΟ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town and a municipality in the northwestern part of in , on the site of ancient . Under the Ottoman Empire, it was known as Karvasaras.

Village
Photo: Nikos-Pappas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Limnaea.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 6 km south of Limnaea.

Limnaea

Latitude
38.85857° or 38° 51′ 31″ north
Longitude
21.16838° or 21° 10′ 6″ east
Open location code
8GC3V559+C9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 919390136
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q11931948
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Turkish—“Limnaea” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Limnae”
  • Catalan: “Limnaea”
  • Catalan: “Limnea”
  • Finnish: “Limnaia (Akarnania)”
  • Finnish: “Limnaia”
  • Greek: “Λιμναία”
  • Italian: “Limnea”
  • Japanese: “リムナイア”
  • Spanish: “Limnea”
  • Turkish: “Limnaia”

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Highlights include Αρχαία Λιμναία and Αγία Τριάδα.

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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 “Limnaea”. Photo: Spiros Baracos, CC BY-SA 3.0.