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Alesiaeum
Town of Pisatis in ancient Elis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alesiaeum or Alesiaion (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεσιαῖον), also called Aleisium or Aleision (Ἀλείσιον) by Homer[1] and Alesium or Alesion (Ἀλήσιον) by Stephanus of Byzantium,[2] was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, situated upon the road leading across the mountains from Elis to Olympia.[3] It appears in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad.[1]
Its site is unlocated.[4]
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