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Chalkidiki
Chalcidici

 The Chalkidiki is a large peninsula in the northwestern Aigean (Aegean) Sea, resembling a hand with three fingers stretching south into the sea. Mount Athos is distinctive and used as a landmark in the Iliad as the goddess Hera was winging her way from Thrace to the island of Lemnos.

Chalkidiki


Chalkidiki

References:
Homer, Iliad book 14, line 229
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