. f Macedonia, on thefrontiers of Epirus and Thessaly, originallybelonged to Ulyria, and was bounded by theI Cambunian mountains on the S. and the Tym-phaean mountains on the W. Its inhabitants,tin- Elimaei (EAei^tiaiTai), were Epirots. Elis THAis, , HAda : HAfios, , whence Alii in Plautus), a country onthe W. coast of Peloponnesus, bounded byAchaiu on the N., Arcadia on the E., Messeniaon the S., and the Ionian sea on the W. Thecountry was fertile, wutered by the Alpheusand its tributaries, and is said to have been
. f Macedonia, on thefrontiers of Epirus and Thessaly, originallybelonged to Ulyria, and was bounded by theI Cambunian mountains on the S. and the Tym-phaean mountains on the W. Its inhabitants,tin- Elimaei (EAei^tiaiTai), were Epirots. Elis THAis, , HAda : HAfios, , whence Alii in Plautus), a country onthe W. coast of Peloponnesus, bounded byAchaiu on the N., Arcadia on the E., Messeniaon the S., and the Ionian sea on the W. Thecountry was fertile, wutered by the Alpheusand its tributaries, and is said to have beenthe only country in Greece which producedflax. The is the only other river inElis of any importance. Elis was divided into three parte;—1. Elis Proper or Hollow Elis 312 ELIS {r) KoiXt] HAis), the N. part, watered by the Minyae or Arcadians), of which Pylos was thePeneus, of which the capital was also called capital, lay between the Alpheus and the —2. PiSatis (?) nica-m), the middle por- ?—In the heroic times we find the kingdom of. PlaJi of lUeusis. (After Dorpfeld.) tion, of which the capital was Pisa.— 3. Tri-phylia (?; Tp«pv\io), the S. portion ( theabode of three tribes, Epeans, Eleans, and Nestor and the Pelldae in the S. of Elis; whilethe N. of the country was inhabited by theEpeans (E7reioi), with whom some Aetolian ELISO tribes were mingled. On the conquest ofPeloponnesus by the Heraclidae, the Aetolianchief Oxylus received Elis as his share of theconquest ; and it was the union of his Aetolianand Dorian followers with the Epeans, whichformed the subsequent population of thecountry, under the general name of owed its importance in Greece to theworship of Zeus at Olympia near Pisa, inhonour of whom a splendid festival was heldevery four years. [Olympia.] In consequenceof this festival being common to the whole ofGreece, the country of Elis was declaredsacred, and its inhabitants possessed priestlyprivileges. Being exempt from
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