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Paximadia and where
Veneration of a local Leto is attested at Phaistos ( where it is purported that she gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia ( also known as Letoai in ancient Crete ) and at Lato, which bore her name .< ref > Noted by R. F.

Paximadia and Apollo
Another contender for the birthplace of Apollo is the Cretan islands of Paximadia.
In ancient Cretan history Leto was worshipped at Phaistos and in Cretan mythology Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia.

island and Agia
There are regular bus services from Aegina town to destinations throughout the island such as Agia Marina.
* Agia Paraskevi, on the island of Lesbos.
The gorge became a national park in 1962, particularly as a refuge for the rare kri-kri ( Cretan goat ), which is largely restricted to the park and an island just off the shore of Agia Marina.
Trails encircle the island and total about 25 to 30 km ; beaches include Agios Mamas, in the center of town, Agioi Anargiroi and Agia Paraskevi at the back of the island, Zogeria, and two beaches close to the town, College beach and Agia Marina, both of which offer watersports.
* Agia Mavra, Lefkada, a village in the island of Lefkada
* Agia Eirini, Cephalonia, on the island of Cephalonia
* Agia Eirini, Paros, on the island of Paros
Agia Eirini (, for Saint Irene ) is a community in the municipal unit of Eleios-Pronnoi in the southeastern part of the island of Cephalonia, Greece.
* Agia Paraskevi, Lesbos, a village in the island of Lesbos, Greece
Visitors can take the " small tour " of the island by a phaeton, leading to the point from where it is a strenuous climb to Agia Yorgi ( St. George, in Greek Άγιος Γεώργιος ), a tiny hilltop church with a magnificent panoramic view, and a café in its garden that serves wine, chips and sausage sandwiches, this being a part of the " classic " Agia Yorgi experience.
* Agia Zoni, a place in the island of Samos
Melissani Cave () or Melissani Lake, also Melisani is a cave located on the island of Kefalonia, northwest of Sami, about 5 km SE of Agia Efthymia, NE of Argostoli and NW of Poros.
Near the cave is the entry to the cave with parking lots and is passed almost in the middle of the main road linking Sami and Agia Efimia especially to the northern part of the island.
Agia Paraskevi (, also Ayia Paraskevi ) is a village and a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece.
Agia Paraskevi is an old village that is becoming a powerful cultural and economic center for the island.
The oil press of Agia Paraskevi is a complex of stone-built buildings that serves as a characteristic sample of exceptional industrial architecture of the early 20th century ( 1910 ) on the island.

island and Rethymno
It lies along the north coast of the island, about west of Rethymno and west of Heraklion.
The University of Crete, is a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented institution, located in the cities of Rethymno and Heraklion, in the island of Crete.
* Myloi, Crete, a village on the island of Crete, part of the municipality Rethymno
The Rethymno prefecture () was created while Crete was still an autonomous state, and was preserved after the island joined Greece in 1913.

island and where
We gently usher them to an island of tables and chairs strategically placed on the far side of the pool where they can amuse each other until we get ready to merge sides.
The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.
While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island.
The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).
This was the island where her mother was banished.
Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.
They took refuge on an island at Thorney, on the Hertfordshire Colne, where they were blockaded and were ultimately forced to submit.
The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.
The Amazons are also said to have undertaken an expedition against the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube, where the ashes of Achilles had been deposited by Thetis.
The group proceeded to Little Andaman Island, where they spent ten days surfing several spots for the first time, including Jarawa Point near Hut Bay and the long right reef point at the southwest tip of the island, named Kumari Point.
Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos.
Earlier, the classical geographer, Ptolemy notes " Apphana " as an island off the mouth of the Tigris ( which is, where the modern Island of Abadan is located ).
The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.
His western coastline is so distorted, however, that it is impossible to say where Adjacium was ; certainly, he would have known its name and location if he had had any first-hand knowledge of the island and if in fact it was there.
Many of the displaced residents were not allowed to return to the area for months and none were given government guidance of where to live temporarily on the already crowded island of Manhattan.
Saumarez's convoy of prizes stopped first at Malta, where Saumarez provided assistance to a rebellion on the island among the Maltese population.
Björkö is today mainly agricultural, and shipping lines carry tourists to the island, where a museum showcases a view of life during the Viking era.
In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of Wall Street, where traffic continued up the East Side of the island via Eastern Post Road and the West Side via Bloomingdale Road.
In the Aeneid, Aeneas skirts the Italian island where Circe now dwells, and hears the cries of her many victims, who now number more than the pigs of earlier accounts:
Population density figures conceal a great disparity between the republic's most crowded island, Nzwani, which had a density of 470 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; Ngazidja, which had a density of 250 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; and Mwali, where the 1991 population density figure was 120 persons per square kilometer.
The Irish words " Cluan Innish ", which mean " meadow and island ", have been contracted to " Cleenish ", where the remains of the monastery can be seen at Bellanaleck, County Fermanagh.

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