Achaea (ancient region)
Greece
Achaea (ancient region) has 17 documented cultural connections to places around the world. Below are 12 of the most distinctive.
Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Acarnania
Persian Wars
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Peloponnese
Achaeans (Homer)
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Basilicata | Kouklia, Cyprus
Paphlagonia
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Veneto | Patagonia | Samsun, Turkey | Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy
Pausanias (geographer)
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Greece | Ankara, Turkey | Manisa, Turkey | Cunda Island
Iliad
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Troy, New York | Samsun, Turkey | Rezovo | Jeżyce, Poland | Carranque, Spain
Acts of the Apostles
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Damascus, Syria | Turkey | Antalya, Turkey | Appenzell Innerrhoden | Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Corinth
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Calabria | Durrës, Albania | Peloponnese | Trpanj, Croatia | Ionian Islands
New Testament
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Greece | Egypt | Ethiopia | Greenland | Kingdom of Navarre
Homer
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: France | Calabria | Troy, New York | Sidon, Lebanon | Paphos, Cyprus
Philip II of Macedon
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Greece | Athens, Greece | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | Macedonia (Greece) | Bitola, North Macedonia
Sparta
Connects Achaea (ancient region) to: Sicily | Greece | Athens, Greece | Benghazi, Libya | Peloponnese