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- ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press. p. 62, and directory notes accompanying.
- ↑ http://mama.csad.ox.ac.uk/monuments/Pentapolis.html
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