Tenea

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Tenea was an ancient Greek city, traditionally associated with Corinthian colonists and mythic Trojan origins, known from classical sources and archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek city
archaeologicalSite Tenea archaeological site
associatedWithDeity Apollo
associatedWithMyth Trojan War
civilization Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
country Greece
culture Greek
excavatedBy Elena Korka
hasArchaeologicalFind architectural remains
coins
pottery
sculpture
tombs
hasEconomicActivity agriculture (in antiquity)
trade (in antiquity)
hasEvidenceOf burial grounds
coinage
continuous habitation from archaic to Roman times
cult practices
domestic architecture
public buildings
urban planning
hasMythicalOrigin Trojan prisoners of war
hasMythicConnectionTo Aeneas
Trojans
hasToponymicDerivative Municipality of Tenea
hasTraditionalFounder Corinthian colonists
heritageStatus archaeological heritage site
knownFrom archaeological discoveries
literary sources
language Ancient Greek
laterStatus prosperous town under Roman rule
locatedBetween Corinth and Argos
linked to: Corinth
locatedIn Corinthia
Peloponnese
locatedInModernAdministrativeUnit regional unit of Corinthia
locatedInModernCountry Greece
locatedNear Corinth
mentionedInSource Pausanias
Strabo
politicalStatus dependent on Corinth in early periods
region Northeastern Peloponnese
religion ancient Greek religion
timePeriod Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
Hellenistic period
Roman period
typeOfSettlement polis

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Syracuse foundedBy Tenea