Idalium
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Idalium (Greek: Ιδάλιον) was an ancient city in Cyprus, near modern Dali, Nicosia District. Idalium was one of 10 Cypriot kingdoms. The city was founded by the Achaean-Greeks and their king Chalcanor after the Trojan war (1194BC-1184BC). The Achaeans were traveling all night and one soldier when he first saw the sun said “idou alion” (I see the sun), and so they named the city Idalion. It became the center of a cult of Aphrodite.
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