Callipolis

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Callipolis is the commonly used latinized form of Kallipolis, the Greek name of several ancient cities, notably:

• Kallipolis in Caria
• Kallipolis, a Hellespont-port on the Thracian Chersonesus, the modern Gallipoli
• Callipolis in Calabria, southern Italy, a port on a peninsula into the Tarentine Gulf, which was granted by the Roman republic the status of Socii

The kallipolis is also the word Plato uses for his ideal city in his dialogue The Republic.

Sources and references

• Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte (in German)

 

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