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Chryse (
Ancient Greek: Χρύση) is a name occurring in Ancient Greek geography, reported by ancient authors to have referred to the following places:
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Chryse (island), a former island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology Philoctetes was bitten by a snake. This island is underwater now.
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Chryse and Argyre, one of a pair of legendary islands in the Indian Ocean said to be made of gold and silver
- Chryse, a town mentioned in Homer's Iliad, from which Agamemnon took
Chryseis
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- Chrysē nēsos (Golden Island), an ancient poetical name for the island
Thasos, for its gold mines
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- Chryse, a promontory of
Lemnos opposite Tenedos
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Chryse (Aeolis), a town of ancient Aeolis, now in Turkey
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Chryse (Lesbos), Lesbos, a place in Greece
[3]
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Chryse (Troad), a town of the ancient Troad, now in Turkey
- Chryse,
Skyros, a village or place in Ancient Greece
[3]
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Chryse (Caria), a place in the area of Halicarnassus, now in Turkey
[3]
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Chryse (Hellespont), located between Ophrynion and Abydos
[3]
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Chryse (Bithynia), close to Chalcedon
[3]
- Chryse,
Gaidaronisi, an island near Crete
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Isle of Chryse, a term in classical antiquity for the Malay peninsula or Sumatra
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