Thermopylae is primarily known for the battle that took place there in 480 BC, in which an outnumbered Greek force probably of seven thousand ( including the famous 300 Spartans, 500 warriors from Tegea, 500 from Mantinea, 120 from Arcadian Orchomenos, 1000 from the rest of Arcadia, 200 from Phlius, 80 from Mycenae, 700 Corinthians, 400 Thebans, 1000 Phocians and the Opuntian Locrians ) held off a substantially larger force of Persians estimated in the range 70, 000-300, 000 under Xerxes.

There is some disagreement over whether it was those from Opuntian Locris or from Ozolian Locris who were responsible.

To the north east of Phocis was Opuntian Locris, named after its main city, Opus.

* Opuntian Locris: A coastal region of Greece opposite Euboea, it is another destination recommended by The Hoopoe but rejected by Euelpides because ' Opuntian ' reminds him of Opuntius, a notorious sycophant with only one eye ( line 152 ).

* Boeotia, Phocis and Opuntian Locris become members of the Delian League.

Opuntian Locris is part of modern Phthiotis.

With the victory the Athenians also occupied Phocis, the original source of the conflict and the Opuntian Locris.

Opus ( also Opous, Ancient Greek: ), in Ancient Greece, the chief city of Opuntian or Eastern Locris.

In the first half of the fifth century BC, the Locrians demolished their archaic temple and rebuilt a new temple in the Ionic style.

This fact, combined with the region's infertility, meant that the Locrians tended to be dominated by their neighbours, and played little part in Greek history.

In historical times it belonged to the Ozolian Locrians ; but about 455 BC, in spite of a partial resettlement with Locrians of Opus, it fell to the Athenians, who peopled it with Messenian refugees and made it their chief naval station in western Greece during the Peloponnesian war.

Xenophon claims that, unwilling to challenge Sparta directly, the Thebans instead chose to precipitate a war by encouraging their allies, the Locrians, to collect taxes from territory claimed by both Locris and Phocis.

The Locrians appealed to Thebes for assistance, and the Thebans invaded Phocian territory ; the Phocians, in turn, appealed to their ally, Sparta, and the Spartans, pleased to have a pretext to discipline the Thebans, ordered general mobilization.

As a result, the Amfissians and the rest of Locrians, along with the Thebans, attacked Phocis, and the Phocians, in turn, appealed to their ally, Sparta.

Modern Phocis was inhabited by several Greek tribes since antiquity, mainly by Phocians, Locrians and Dorians, which were intermingled and formed the present-day Phocian population, with a unique linguistic and cultural heritage, frequently mentioned as Roumeliotes.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus mentions that Curetes was the old name of the Aetolians and Leleges the old name of the Locrians.

Locris ( Greek, Modern: Lokrida, Ancient: Lokris ) was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of three distinct districts.

The city of Locri in Calabria ( Italy ), also known in antiquity as " Epizephyrian Locris ", was a colony founded by the Locrians in Magna Graecia.

The territory of the Locrians was divided into three by Doris and Phocis, perhaps due to an early invasion of a contiguous Locrian state.

In 404 it was restored to the Locrians, who subsequently lost it to the Achaeans, but recovered it through Epaminondas.

Facing him on the plain, near the foot of Mount Helicon, was an army made up of Boeotians, Athenians, Argives, Corinthians, Euboeans, and Locrians.

Amfissa has been settled since the ancient times and was the chief town of Ozolian Locris, a region inhabited by the ancient Greek tribe of Locrians ; the largest and most renowned town of Locris, beautifully constructed and located one hundred and twenty stades away from Delphi.

Later in the same year, under the motivation of Demosthenes, a confederation of the Athenians and the Thebans was organized against the Macedonians, which the Amfissians and the rest of the Ozolian Locrians joined.

In 338 BC, Myonia was sacked by Philip II of Macedon along with Amfissa, because Ozolian Locrians had illegally cultivated part of the Crissaean plain which belonged to Delphi.

After the failure of a first military excursion against the Locrians, the summer session of the Amphictyonic Council gives command of the league's forces to Philip and asks him to lead a second excursion.

" Subsequently, "... about the sixth generation they were driven out by the Curetes and Leleges, who are now called Aetolians and Locrians ..."

However, in Lacedaemon and in Leucas they were believed to be aboriginal and Dionysius of Halicarnassus mentions that Leleges is the old name for the later Locrians.

Myonia is attested by classical sources as a polis, thus it must have been a political community, one of the principal of the ancient Greek tribe of Locrians, in the region of Ozolian Locris.

According to the Iliad, he led his Locrians in forty ships against Troy.

* After his significant victory over the Locrians, Philip II of Macedon swiftly enters Phocis.

The Amphictyonic Congress, with the initial support of the Athenian representative, Aeschines, decides to inflict a harsh punishment upon the Locrians.

Philip acts at once, and his forces pass through Thermopylae, enter Amfissa and defeat the Locrians who are led by Chares, the Athenian general and mercenary commander.

He removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana to Leontini, peopled Catana ( which he renamed Aetna ) with Dorians, concluded an alliance with Acragas ( Agrigentum ) and espoused the cause of the Locrians against Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium.

According to Marcus Terrentius Varro, the gens Salentini descended from Idomeneus, who had sailed from Crete to Illyria, and then together with Illyrians and Locrians from Illyria to Salento, see Grecìa Salentina.

Locrus son of Physcius and grandson of Amphictyon son of Deucalion, became by Cabya the father of another Locrus, the mythical ancestor of the Ozolian Locrians ( Plut.

The Achelous River separates Aetolia from Acarnania to the west ; on the north it had boundaries with Epirus and Thessaly ; on the east with the Ozolian Locrians ; and on the south the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf defined the limits of Aetolia.

In classical times Aetolia comprised two parts: Old Aetolia in the west, from the Achelous to the Evenus and Calydon ; and New Aetolia or Acquired Aetolia in the east, from the Evenus and Calydon to the Ozolian Locrians.

They were later joined by the Locrians.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

He gives no precise indication of their geographical situation but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshiped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was located on " an island in the Ocean ".

Green is one of the Christmas colors as well, possibly dating back to pre-Christian times, when evergreens were worshiped for their ability to maintain their color through the winter season.

Several Biblical stories allude to the belief that the Canaanite gods all existed and possessed the most power in the lands that worshiped them or in their sacred objects ; their power was real and could be invoked by the people who patronised them.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

Shaolin Monastery historically worshiped a deity known as Kimnara, a dharmapala, as their patron saint and progenitor of the Shaolin staff method.

In this sense, these kami were worshiped not because of their godly powers, but because of a distinct quality or value.

" The result was a syncretistic religion, in which national groups worshiped the Hebrew god, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.

He was historically worshiped as the progenitor of their famous staff method by the monks themselves.

They were actively supported by the missionaries who tried to destroy all signs of indigenous beliefs, notably by razing the ' mahoka ' huts where the local population worshiped their ancestors ' spirits and by ridiculing their rites, dances and other ceremonies.

During the Konbaung dynasty, solid gold images of deceased kings and their consorts were worshiped three times a year by the royal family, during the Burmese New Year ( Thingyan ), at the beginning and at the end of the Buddhist lent.

After their deaths the brothers were worshiped as god Wurskaito.

Davidson adds, on the other hand, that it is attested that the Germanic peoples worshiped their deities in open forest clearings and that a sky god was particularly connected with the oak tree, and therefore " a central tree was a natural symbol for them also ".

Arvernus was worshiped in the Rhineland, possibly as a particular deity of the Arverni tribe, though no dedications to Mercurius Arvernus occur in their territory in the Auvergne region of central France.

They chose Set, originally Upper Egypt's chief god, the god of foreigners and the god they found most similar to their own chief god, as their patron, and so Set became worshiped as the chief god once again.

Because of their miraculous power and feats they were later deified and worshiped by the locals.

Eventually, after the 16th and 17th centuries, and especially after the Anglican Reformation and the Plantation of Ulster, many of the " Old English " settlers were gradually assimilated into the Irish population, in large part due to their relative reluctance to give up Roman Catholicism ( those who worshiped in the Church of Ireland were rewarded with a higher status ).

The Pharisees, like the Sadducees, were politically quiescent, and studied, taught, and worshiped in their own way.