The Tunnel of Eupalinos or Eupalinian aqueduct (Greek: Ευπαλίνιον όρυγμα, romanized: Efpalinion orygma) is a tunnel of 1,036 m (3,399 ft) length running...
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Eupalinos (Ancient Greek: Εὐπαλῖνος) or Eupalinus of Megara was an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos Island in the 6th...
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List of caves Qanat Siloam inscription Tunnel of Eupalinos, 6th century BC tunnel on Samos, Greece Turpan water system Warren's Shaft Hezekiah's Tunnel Wading...
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Hydraulic engineering (redirect from History of hydraulic engineering)
globe. Eupalinos of Megara was an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos in the 6th century BC, an important feat of both civil...
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Pythagoreio (section Tourism and places of interest)
Tunnel of Eupalinos: a 1086-meter-long tunnel through Mount Kastro, which formed part of an ancient aqueduct. It is located about 2 km northwest of Pythagorio...
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8th century BC. Another tunnel excavated from both ends, maybe the second known, is the Tunnel of Eupalinos, which is a tunnel aqueduct 1,036 m (3,400 ft)...
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metres long and it transported water to thousands of people. It is an exact replica of the Tunnel of Eupalinos in Greece that also transported water. Various...
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Roman monuments and a famous ancient tunnel, the Tunnel of Eupalinos or Eupalinian aqueduct. Along with the Heraion of Samos, the Pythagoreion was registered...
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Polycrates (redirect from Polycrates of Samos)
in the form of a tunnel 1,036 metres (3,399 ft) long which can still be seen and which is known as the Tunnel of Eupalinos. The tunnel was constructed...
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Aqueduct (water supply) (section Tunnels)
powerful flood waters at bay. On the island of Samos, the Tunnel of Eupalinos was built during the reign of Polycrates (538–522 BC). It is considered an...
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Megara (category Municipalities of Attica)
BC), founder of Byzantium Theognis (6th century BC), elegiac poet Eupalinos (6th century BC), engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos Theagenes...
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as the Pharos and devised central heating systems. The Tunnel of Eupalinos is the earliest tunnel which has been excavated with a scientific approach from...
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BC – Tunnel of Eupalinos first underground aqueduct 500 BC – The moldboard iron plough is invented in China 500 BC – Row cultivation of crops using intensive...
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Construction surveying (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
BC geometric based techniques were used to construct the tunnel of Eupalinos on the island of Samos.[citation needed] Modern technology advanced surveying's...
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Ancient Greece (redirect from History of Ancient Greece)
the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically...
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construction by Eupalinos, under a public contract, of a watering channel for Samos, the Tunnel of Eupalinos. An early example of the usage of hydraulic wheel...
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Greece in the Roman era (redirect from History of Roman Greece)
describes the Roman conquest of ancient Greece (roughly, the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece) as well as that of the Greek people and the areas...
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The Sacred Band of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἱερός Λόχος, Hierós Lókhos) was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed...
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located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance...
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Paideia (category Culture of ancient Greece)
paedeia; Greek: παιδεία) referred to the rearing and education of the ideal member of the ancient Greek polis or state. These educational ideals later...
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construction of the Eupalinos aqueduct tunnel in Ancient Greece. This was the first tunnel to be constructed inward from both ends using principles of geometry...
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Ancient Greek folklore (category Culture of ancient Greece)
had all the genres of oral narrative known to us, even ghost stories and urban legends, but they also told all kinds that in most of the Western world...
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Minoan palaces (category History of Crete)
built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and are modern tourist destinations. Archaeologists...
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Ancient Greek coinage (redirect from Coinage of ancient Greece)
The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...
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Dark Ages (c. 1200–800 BC) were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history: the Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) and the Prehistoric...
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Ancient Greek architecture (redirect from Architecture of Greece)
highly formalised characteristics, both of structure and decoration. This is particularly so in the case of temples where each building appears to have...
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Ancient Greek dialects (redirect from Dialects of Ancient Greek)
antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties. Most of these varieties are known only...
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Μηχανικού" [Designation of Tunnel of Eupalinos as a Historical Civil Engineering Landmark]. National Technical University of Athens School of Civil Engineering...
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Ancient Greek sculpture (redirect from Sculpture of Ancient Greece)
The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no...
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Cycladic culture (section Evidence of seafaring)
was a Bronze Age culture (c. 3100–c. 1000 BC) found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. In chronological terms, it is a relative dating...
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