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Excavated colonies in Greece · Mysteria

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Excavated colonies in Greece

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🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city

Megara Hyblaea — Sicily

Archaic to Classical (728–483 BCE) · Corinthian–Megarian Greek colony

Megara Hyblaea — Sicily in Sicily (Italian heritage), Greece is a Archaic to Classical (728–483 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Corinthian–Megarian Greek colony.

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🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city

Akrai — Colony of Syracuse

Archaic–Hellenistic (664 BCE) · Syracusan Greek

Akrai — Colony of Syracuse in Sicily, Greece is a Archaic–Hellenistic (664 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Syracusan Greek.