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Apollonia (ăpəlō`nēə) [Gr.,=of Apollo], name of several ancient Greek towns. The most important was a port in Illyria on the Adriatic. It was founded by Corinthians and was later a Greek and a Roman intellectual center. Julius Caesar used it as a base. Octavian (later Augustus Augustus (ôgŭs`təs, əgŭs`–), 63 B.C.–A.D. ..... Click the link for more information. ) received news of Julius Caesar's death while stationed at Apollonia. Among the other towns of this name, there was one in Thrace on the Aegean (a town famous for a large statue of Apollo), one in N Sicily, and another in Chalcidice (Khalkidhikí). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Top, from left, Apolonia Wallace of Palmdale shows a ring she bought for $15, Stan Milatovic of Chatsworth purchased a painting, Richard Ramirez and Ophelia Aguayo leave Spelling's estate sale with Louis Vuitton luggage they bought for $1,600 and plan to resell, and Mathew Wallace of Palmdale shows off his purchase, a Furby he plans to sell on eBay. An extension to Lisbon's metro will soon connect Santa Apolonia, the city's principal railway station, to the Baixa-Chiado area, and Chiado itself is so well restored following the fire of 1988 that the seams between old and new would be undetectable, were it not for the superb workmanship of some of the latter. 84) On 1 December 1399 Apolonia Benado, gastalda of the Scuola di S. |
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