Geophysically the city is likewise surrounded by the narrow coastal plain of Vocha, Corinthian Gulf, Corinth Canal, the Isthmus of Corinth, Saronic Gulf, Oneia Mountains, and the monolithic rock of Acrocorinth, where the medieval acropolis was built.

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.

The late Roman wall enclosing the acropolis, part of which probably dates from the years following the Gothic raid of AD 262, was also investigated.

The first burials in pits or cist graves began at about 1800-1700 BCE to the west of the acropolis, which was at least partially enclosed by the earliest circuit wall.

The acropolis was excavated in 1902, and the surrounding hills have been methodically investigated by subsequent excavations.

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 acropolis, high above the main town, was a safe haven for the populace in the event of a raid.

" There was also, beside the acropolis, the Hanging Garden, as it is called, which was built, not by Semiramis, but by a later Syrian king to please one of his concubines ; for she, they say, being a Persian by race and longing for the meadows of her mountains, asked the king to imitate, through the artifice of a planted garden, the distinctive landscape of Persia.

Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honor.

This hill was never an acropolis in the Greek sense.

His ox-cart was preserved in the acropolis.

Huge walls were erected at the edges of the ancient terrace, the courts of the temple were filled with houses and streets, and the ziggurat itself was curiously built over in a cruciform shape, and converted into an acropolis for the fortress.

It was most remarkable that the impious act of Xerxes, king of the Persians, against the acropolis at Athens should have been repaid in kind after many years by one woman, a citizen of the land which had suffered it, and in sport.

It was built in the 2nd century BC on an artificial platform in the acropolis.

18th century and up to early 20th century, Litri was a considerable place and port, extending from the ancient harbour to the acropolis.

On the lower slopes of the acropolis was a sanctuary of Demeter.

Etruscan remains establish that the acropolis of San Cornelio, a small hill next to that of San Donatus, was occupied and fortified in the Etruscan period.

* Acropolis (" high city "), Athens, Greece ( this is the most well-known example of acropolis ; in fact an acropolis area was part of almost every ancient Greek polis and it was more like a function-part of an ancient polis ( like e. g. agora, walls, etc.

It was the citadel ( equivalent of the ancient Greek acropolis ) of the earliest Romans.

The site was occupied by 200, construction on the acropolis had begun by about 550, and an explosion of grander construction started in the 8th century.

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.

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

The city proper surrounded the acropolis on the plain below.

Their bases survive throughout all of their length, and their height in some places reaches 7 meters, slightly below the original height, which is estimated at 9, 10 m. The thickness of the wall is very large, usually reaches the 6 meters, while at the points that are opened the famous tunnels up to 17 m. A strong transverse wall is separating the acropolis in two sections-the south includes the palatial buildings, while the northern protects only the top of the hill area.

There is an acropolis on the castle hill and some settlements below ( crafts ) and around it ( farming ).

During Greek and Byzantine times, the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Byzantion stood here.

The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock ; but beyond ruins of two churches, a gatehouse, and a fine keep built by Thoros I There are no notable structures in the upper town.

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

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.

The acropolis ( 280 ft ) has an amphitheatre on its northern slope, and eastwards lie many remains of Byzantine buildings.

There is an underground Byzantine cistern, located in the Second Courtyard, which was used throughout Ottoman times, as well as remains of a small church, the so-called Palace Basilica on the acropolis have also been excavated in modern times.

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.

In the outskirts of Mtskheta are the ruins of Armaztsikhe fortress ( 3rd century BC ), the Armaztsikhe acropolis ( dating to the late 1st millennium BC ), remains of a " Pompey's bridge " ( according to legends built by Roman legionnaires of Pompey the Great in 1st century BC ), the fragmentary remains of a royal palace ( 1st – 3rd century AD ), a nearby tomb of the 1st century AD, a small church of the 4th century, the Samtavro Monastery ( 11th century ), and the fortress of Bebris Tsikhe ( 14th century ).

* The remains of the Roman Aqueduct, which connected the acropolis with the springs of Romanos.

On the acropolis and in a plain to the east, Tre Breci, is a site continuously occupied from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, in addition to the remains of Etruscan Luni ( which was then in Etruria ) on a higher plateau nearby.

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 city's remains today consist of an acropolis, some rock-cut tombs, tumuli, a bridge and remains of houses with mosaic tile floors.

An old arch within the territory of the comune is said to be Roman, and some remains of the ancient acropolis have survived, but otherwise Trevi's monuments are medieval or later:

On the high hill to the north of the city, a few ancient remains indicate that it was the site of an acropolis.

At first, the fortress was set up as earthen bulwarks, but soon after, it was fortified with stone, the remains of which can be seen today near the northeastern corner of the acropolis.

However, on the Gradina hill, above the famous archeological site of Carine, a fortification is situated containing remains of an Illyrian-Greek acropolis, as well as the medieval and Turkish stratum.