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Alesiaeum

Elis Regional Unit, Greece

Alesiaeum or Alesiaion (Ἀῖ), also called Aleisium or Aleision (Ἀ) by Homer and Alesium or Alesion (Ἀ) by Stephanus of Byzantium, was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, situated upon the road leading across the mountains from Elis to Olympia. It appears in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad. Its site is unlocated.

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