Callipolis
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Callipolis is the Latinized form of Kallipolis, which is Greek for "beautiful city", from κάλλος kallos (beauty) and πόλις polis (city). It was the name of several ancient cities, notably:
- Kallipolis, Caria - in Caria, Anatolia
- Kallipolis - a Hellespont-port on the Thracian Chersonesus, the modern Gallipoli
- Callipolis, Calabria - in Calabria, southern Italy, a port on a peninsula into the Tarentine Gulf
- Callipolis (mythology) - In Greek mythology, Callipolis was a son of Alcathous, son of Pelops
- "Kallipolis" is also the word Socrates uses for his utopia in Plato's dialogue The Republic (Plato).
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