Eretria

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important polis in the 6th/5th century BC.

Origin

  • Ancient Greek Ἐρέτρῐᾰ, literally "city of the rowers", from ἐρέτης.

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