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Dionysius Periegetes, it was
called Leuke because the
serpents there were white.
According to Arrian, it was
called Leuke due to its color. He and Steph****...
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variously given as Ákra Leuká (Ancient Gr****: Ἄκρα Λευκά), Ákra
Leukḗ (Ἄκρα Λευκή), and
Leukḕ Ákra (Λευκὴ Ἄκρα). Livy
translated the
second sense of the Gr****...
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Leuke Kome (Gr****: λευκή κώμη, lit. 'white village') was a
Nabataean port city
located on the
Incense Route. It may have been in the
vicinity of the village...
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General Anuruddha Leuke Ra****te (14 July 1938 – 24
November 2011),
frequently referred to as
Anuruddha Ra****te, was a Sri
Lankan politician and a retired...
- In Greco-Roman mythology, Leuce, also
spelled Leuke (Ancient Gr****: Λεύκη, "white",
specifically "white poplar"), was a nymph, an Oceanid; a daughter...
- Achilles, lord of
Leuke." In
another inscription from the
fifth or
fourth centuries BCE, a
statue is
dedicated to Achilles, lord of
Leuke, by a
citizen of...
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Balagrae Barca Berenice Cyrene (Apollonia)
Ptolemais Iberian Peninsula Akra
Leuke Alonis Emporion Helike Hemeroscopion Kalathousa Kypsela Mainake Menestheus's...
- IV. 282). At the end of the
Okeanos Potamos, is the holy
island of Alba (
Leuke,
Pytho Nisi, Isle of Snakes),
sacred to the
Pelasgian (and later, Gr****)...
- Okeanós Potamós, and
called in
different times Leuke or Leukos, Alba,
Fidonisi or Isle of Snakes. It was on
Leuke, in one
version of his legend, that the hero...
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discovered here are
identified by most
researchers with the
Nabataean port of
Leuke Kome,
mentioned by Strabo,
among others. It lay on a
trade route; it is...
