Onchestus

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Onchestus was an ancient Boeotian town known for its sanctuary of Poseidon and its association with the Boeotian League.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Boeotian town
ancient Greek city
associatedWith Boeotian League NERFINISHED
category Ancient Boeotian poleis
Former populated places in Greece
Populated places in ancient Boeotia
country Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
cultDeity Poseidon NERFINISHED
declineIn Roman period
epithetOfCultDeity Poseidon Onchestios NERFINISHED
famousFor sanctuary of Poseidon NERFINISHED
functionedAs meeting place of the Boeotian League
GreekName Ὄγχηστος NERFINISHED
hasArchaeologicalRemains ruins of sanctuary of Poseidon
hasSanctuaryOf Poseidon NERFINISHED
hasType sanctuary site
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Boeotia NERFINISHED
locatedNear Haliartus NERFINISHED
Lake Copais NERFINISHED
locatedOn road between Thebes and Chalcis
mentionedBy Homer NERFINISHED
Pausanias NERFINISHED
Strabo
mentionedIn Homeric Hymn to Apollo NERFINISHED
Iliad NERFINISHED
partOf territory of Haliartus
region central Greece NERFINISHED
religiousCenterOf Boeotians NERFINISHED
timePeriod Archaic Greece NERFINISHED
Classical Greece NERFINISHED
Hellenistic period NERFINISHED

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