Trikka

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Trikka (also known as Trikala) is an ancient city in Thessaly, Greece, traditionally regarded as the birthplace and principal cult center of the healing god Asclepius.

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Label Occurrences
Trikka canonical 2
Tricca 1

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
archaeological site
alsoKnownAs Trikka
surface form: Tricca

Trikala
Trikkaia
associatedWith Asclepiades (sons of Asclepius, indirectly)
surface form: Asclepiads (mythical family of physicians)
country Greece
hasCultType healing cult
hasCulturalSignificance center of Asclepius worship in Thessaly
hasDeity Asclepius
hasEtymologyPossiblyFrom pre-Greek toponym
hasGreekName Τρίκαλα
Τρίκκα
hasHistoricalPeriod Classical antiquity
Hellenistic period
Roman Antiquity
surface form: Roman period
hasMythologicalAssociation healing
medicine
hasTypeOfSanctuary Temple of Asclepius
surface form: Asclepieion
locatedIn Thessaly
Thessaly
surface form: ancient Thessaly
locatedInModernAdministrativeRegion Thessaly
surface form: Thessaly periphery
locatedInPresentDayMunicipality Trikala
locatedOnRiver Litheos River
mentionedBy Homer
mentionedIn Homer's Iliad
surface form: Iliad
modernSuccessor city of Trikala
partOf ancient Greek world
ancient Thessalian tetrarchy of Estiaiotis
principalCultCenterOf Asclepius
religion ancient Greek religion
traditionallyRegardedAs birthplace of Asclepius
worshipCenterOf Asclepius

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Asclepiades (sons of Asclepius, indirectly) associatedWithPlace Trikka
subject surface form: Asclepiades
Trikala historicalName Trikka
Trikka alsoKnownAs Trikka
this entity surface form: Tricca