The steep area faces south, the acropolis rising nearly 200 m ( 700 ft ) behind it.

Ahhiya ( wa ) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy ( note the similarity with early Greek Wilion, later Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy ).

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

Coincidentally archaeology has turned up a major fire on the acropolis of Xanthus in the mid-6th century BC, but as Anthony Keen points out, there is no way to connect that fire with the event presented by Herodotus.

A basis with the signature of Antenor, son of Eumares, has been shown to belong to one of the dedicated female figures of archaic style which have been found on the acropolis of his native city.

A significant portion of the eastern side of the acropolis has been eroded away by the Copán River, although the river has since been diverted in order to protect the site from further damage.

Its acropolis, now Palicastro ( Palaeocastron, " Old Fort "), has the temple of Aphrodite Ourania, who may well represent a Phoenician cult of Astarte.

A Turkish military base has been built on the Carchemish acropolis and Inner Town, and access to that part of the site is presently restricted.

The acropolis has an area of 460, 000 square metres ( 115 acres ) and is surrounded by fortified defence walls.

Dr Mehmet Taşlıalan, who has studied the remains of Antioch in Pisidia, has remarked that the people who settled on the acropolis in the Greek colonial era, carried the Men Askaenos cult down to the plain as Patrios Theos and in the place where the Augusteum was built there are some signs of this former cult as bucrania on the rock-cut walls.

The highest part of the town, the acropolis ( 2nd-1st centuries BC ), is fortified also ; it has massive retaining walls similar to those of the lower town.

The great king also has a palace in Celaenae, a strong place, on the sources of another river, the Marsyas, at the foot of the acropolis.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Although originating in the mainland of Greece, use of the acropolis model quickly spread to Greek colonies such as the Dorian Lato on Crete during the Archaic Period.

The city had vanished, except fragments of wall and of a great stone cistern on the acropolis.

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

One curious window on the practicalities of ostracism comes from the cache of 190 ostraka discovered dumped in a well next to the acropolis.

Around 969, Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas rebuilt the fortifications on the acropolis and in part of the city.

At a conventional date of 1350 BC the fortifications on the acropolis, and other surrounding hills, were rebuilt in a style known as cyclopean because the blocks of stone used were so massive that they were thought in later ages to be the work of the one-eyed giants known as the cyclopes ( singular: Cyclops ).

The final palace, remains of which are currently visible on the acropolis of Mycenae, dates to the start of LHIIIA: 2.

A grand staircase led from a terrace below to the courtyard on the acropolis.

Until the last century the city was distinguished into three different groups: the walled city where the castle stood, and that was identified with the ancient acropolis greek-Roman urban center, the Village or the Upper Town on the hill slope and the New Town, plain.

The archaeological site contains five temples centered on an acropolis.

The Eóganachta had ecclesiastical ties with distant Germany, which show in the architecture of their ceremonial capital, the famous acropolis on the Rock of Cashel.

Pausanias states that in the middle of the 2nd century AD, the remains of an egg-shell, tied up in ribbons, were still suspended from the roof of a temple on the Spartan acropolis.

At last Athena receives him on the acropolis of Athens and arranges a formal trial of the case before twelve judges, including herself.

He founded a sanctuary of Athena on the Sicyonian acropolis where he performed victory rites, celebrating his victory over Theban intruders.

The ruins of Xanthus are on the south slopes of a hill, the ancient acropolis, located on the northern outskirts of the modern city, on the left bank of the Xanthus, which flows beneath the hill.

The Lycians destroyed their own Xanthian acropolis, killed their wives, children, and slaves, then proceeded on a suicidal attack against the superior Persian troops.

The walls, both of the island and on the mainland, can be traced throughout their whole circuit ; and in many places, especially round the acropolis, at the northeast corner of the city, they are remarkably perfect.

According to Pausanias, she had an oracle on the acropolis at Megara.

3 1? 33 ), its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero Aristomenes and the temple of Zeus Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor Ageladas, originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at Naupactus at the close of the third Messenian War.

Antipas settled many non-Jews there from rural Galilee and other parts of his domains in order to populate his new capital, and built a palace on the acropolis.

A lofty isolated ridge formed its acropolis.

* Pelasgicon: The northern side of the Athenian acropolis, its equivalent in Cloudcuckooland is called Pelargikon – of the stork ( line 832 ).

In classical times the acropolis of Lindos was dominated by the massive temple of Athena Lindia, which attained its final form in around 300 BC.

Using Ephesus as its base, the land army went to Sardis, where they captured the city without any opposition and forced the satrap Artaphernes and his forces to retreat to the acropolis.

To the west of Volos lie the Neolithic settlements of Dimini, with a ruined acropolis, walls, and two beehive tombs dating to between 4000-1200 BC, Sesklo, with the remains of the oldest acropolis in Greece ( 6000 BC ), and also the foundations of a palace and mansions, among its most characteristic examples of Neolithic civilisation.

From the cape at the edge of the ancient acropolis of the city ( modern Sarayburnu, Seraglio Point ), south and west to the Marble Tower, the Propontis Wall and its gates went as follows:

There is also an acropolis containing the ruins of a palace, which had its own private water supply.

View of Kavala from its acropolis

After a considerable interval, during which the island probably remained uninhabited, the Carthaginians took possession of it ( no doubt owing to its importance as a station on the way to Sicily ) probably about the beginning of the 7th century BC, occupying as their acropolis the twin hill of San Marco and Santa Teresa, south of the town of Pantelleria.

A part of the traditional region of Ciociaria, it is famous for its megalithic acropolis.

It is supposed that the Athena temple located on the acropolis terrace above it may have been its cultic point of reference, and the altar possibly served solely as a place of sacrifice.

The city also show signs of having been a magnificent Canaanite city prior to its destruction, with great temples and opulent palaces, split into an upper acropolis, and lower city ; the town evidently had been a major Canaanite city.

John and Paul occupies a part of the level top of the ancient acropolis ; it was reconstructed on the site of an older church in 1099-1118 ; the interior was modernized in 1693, but was restored to its original form in 1902.

It is then that Amfissa, due to its strong acropolis, received Phocians seeking for safety.

Landmarks include the Castle of Salona, also known as the Castle of Oria, where the ancient acropolis stood, the Archaeological Museum of Amfissa, the Annunciation Cathedral with its murals by Spyros Papaloukas, several smaller museums and the district of Charmaina where the traditional bells are produced.