Tenea

Tenea

Infobox Greek Dimos
name = Tenea
name_local = Τενέα


periph = Peloponnese
prefec = Corinthia
province =
population = 5477
population_as_of = 2001
population_ref = [http://www.statistics.gr/gr_tables/S1101_SAP_1_TB_DC_01_03_Y.pdf source]
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elevation = 290
lat_deg = 37
lat_min = 48
lat_hem = N
lon_deg = 22
lon_min = 52
lon_hem = E
postal_code = 200 08
area_code = 27410
licence = ΚΡ
mayor =
website =


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Tenea (Greek:Τενέα) is an ancient city in North-East Peloponnese, Greece. In the mid '90s the municipality of the region assumed its ancient name, Tenea. The seat of the municipality is in Chiliomodi. Ancient Tenea was established approximately 15 kilometres SE of Corinth and 20 kilometres NE of Mycenae shortly after the Trojan War. It is believed that the first inhabitants were Trojans prisoners of war to whom Agamemnon permitted to built their own town. Hence the name Tenea resembles that of Tenedos, their home-town. Tenea and Rome, according to the Aeneid of Virgil, are two historical cities known to be associated with Trojan ancestry following the Trojan War. Corinthians and Teneans in 734 or 733 BC under the leadership of Archias established the joint colony of Syracuse in Sicily, the homeland of Archimedes. Ruins of Tenea can still be found one kilometre south of Chiliomodi. The finding include the Kouros of Tenea (c. 550 BC), a unique creation, part of the Munich art collection.

Historical Accounts

Mention of Tenea was made by Strabo and Pausanias

ee also

*List of traditional Greek place names

External links

* [http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/831.html Kouros of Tenea]
* [http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog8/apollooftenea.htm Apollo of Tenea]
* [http://www.tenea.gr/index.htm Municipality of Tenea]
* [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198;query=chapter%3D%2317;layout=;loc=8.5.1 Strabo, Book 8]


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