Apollonia

Apollonia [Gr.,=of Apollo], name of several ancient Greek towns. The most important was a port in Illyria on the Adriatic. It was founded by Corinthians and was later a Greek and a Roman intellectual center. Julius Caesar used it as a base. Octavian (later Augustus) received news of Julius Caesar's death while stationed at Apollonia. Among the other towns of this name, there was one in Thrace on the Aegean (a town famous for a large statue of Apollo), one in N Sicily, and another in Chalcidice (Khalkidhikí).

Apollonia may be:

People:

• Saint Apollonia, of Alexandria
• Apollonia Kotero, musician & actress

Places:

In Albania:

* Apollonia, Illyria

In Bulgaria:

* Apollonia, Thrace now Sozopol

In Greece:

* Apollonia (Mygdonia), an inland city near modern Apollonia, Thessaloniki, visited by the apostle Paul

* Apollonia (Pirgos Apollonias), a coastal city near Thessaloniki

* Apollonia (Chalcidice), a city in the Chalcidice

* Apollonia (Aetolia), a town near to Naupactus.

* Apollonia (Acte), a city on Mount Athos

* Three cities in Crete:

*Apollonia (North coast of Crete), on the north coast

*Apollonia (South coast of Crete), on the south coast

*Eleutherna, inland city also called Apollonia

In Israel:

* Apollonia, later called Arsuf, near modern Herzliya.

In Italy:

* Apollonia (Sicily), a sea port town in Northern Sicily, identified with Pollina.

In Libya:

* Apollonia, Cyrenaica

In Turkey:

* Assos, also called Apollonia

* Apollonia (Mysia), a town in Mysia

* Apollonia, Pisidia (later called Sozopolis), Anatolia.

* Apollonia ad Rhyndacum, a town astride the river Rhyndacus in Bithynia next to the lake Apolloniatis.

Interplanetary:

*358 Apollonia is a large Main belt asteroid.

*Apollonia is an albedo feature on Mercury.

Other:

• Apollonia 6 was the musical group led by Apollonia Kotero, taking over from Prince's defunct Vanity 6.
• Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone was a fictional character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather saga.
• Unreleased song by Team Sleep
• A European association of international artistic exchanges (see : European Institutions in Strasbourg#other bodies)