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Headword: Attaleia
Adler number: alpha,4315
Translated headword: Attaleia, Attalia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
But Italia [sc. is different].
Greek Original:
Attaleia, Italia de.
Notes:
One of the many Suda entries (in reverse at iota 735) which differentiated between words or names which sounded and/or looked similar.
Attaleia (modern-day Antalya) was a city of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor founded by Attalus II. Numismatic evidence shows that it claimed kinship with Athens.
There were other Attaleias inland from Pergamum (NW Turkey) and Aitolia (central Greece), but the Pamphylian one was best known.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2002@22:41:24.
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David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 10 April 2002@10:24:38.
David Whitehead (added x-ref) on 23 May 2003@06:47:30.
Nicholas Fincher (added headword and comment) on 14 July 2003@14:49:45.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 3 August 2011@05:00:36.
Catharine Roth (deleted link) on 6 December 2015@22:52:59.
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