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: ''This article is about the ancient city. For the modern city, see Foça'' Phocaea (Greek: Φώκαια) (modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of MassaliaPliny [link 3 (...)

Lajes is a parish in the municipality of Praia da Vitória in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 3,753, its density is 336.6 /km² and the area is 11.15 km². It is the second largest and the most populated parish in the municipality of Praia da Vitória. It is located in the northeastern part of Terceira. The main industry are business and agriculture (...)

Pitane (near Çandarlı, Turkey) was an ancient Greek town of Aeolis, in Asia Minor. In ancient times it was a port city and a member of the First Athenian League. About 334 BC, Macedonia's Philip II tried to take over the city, but was repulsed by Memnon and 5,000 Greek mercenaries provided by Darius III of Persia. Autolycus of Pitane was born here during the fourth century BC (...)