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- ” The plural of acropolis (ακρόπολη) is acropolises, also commonly as acropoleis and acropoles, and ακροπόλεις in Gr****. The term acropolis is also used...
- complex of structures built upon platforms of varying height. Palaces and acropoleis were essentially elite residential compounds. They generally extended...
- (polis) 'city'. The term acropolis is generic and there are many other acropoleis in Greece. During ancient times the Acropolis of Athens was also more...
- Look up Acropolis, acropolis, acropoleis, or Akropolis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An acropolis is a "high city" or citadel. Acropolis or Akropolis...
- Apollo, below which are a stadium, an odeon and a gymnasium. Unlike other acropoleis, no walled citadel was built here. In 408 BC, towards the end of the Peloponnesian...
- Geometric temple near Kounoupitsa village. There are also two ancient acropoleis (Paliocastro acropolis and Oga acropolis) and many ancient farm sites...
- was noted as one of the most powerful Dorian towns in Crete, with two acropoleis. The oldest settlement in the Kritsa area, on the steep rocky hill south...
- didactic words having English plurals in -eis: poleis, necropoleis, and acropoleis (though acropolises is by far the most common English plural). Most learned...
- acropolis acropoleis /æˈkropoliːs/...
- continued to be occupied into the Byzantine period. It comprises two acropoleis with an Archaic-period agora between them. Almost the whole of the city...