Apollonia

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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