Several locations have featured in the popular TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.
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Xena – the main character of the show – was born at the city of Amphipolis. Xena and her comrade in arms, Gabrielle, made frequent trips to Amphipolis over the course of the series and it was referenced often. The city became a breeding ground for demons after Xena and Gabrielle returned from their twenty-five year sleep, as Mephistopheles, the king of hell, had captured the soul of Cyrene of Amphipolis, Xena's mother, and locked her away in hell. Xena was eventually able to defeat Mephistopheles and rescue her mother. Xena herself once described Amphipolis as "Full of Life".
Interestingly, Xena was set on the path to becoming a warrior in an attempt to protect Amphipolis from the warlord Cortez.
Gabrielle was born in Potidaea, and the village itself is featured numerous times throughout the show's run. many very pivitol episodes (including the series premier, "Sins of The Past", and the season 3 episode "A Family Affair") take place in part, or in full here.
Joxer lived in Athens in his childhood, and the City is often mentioned in passing. The capital of Greece, Xena and Gabrielle rarely pass through Athens, but it was the main setting for a clip show in Season One, and was nearly visited in the episode "One Against an Army".
Callisto is from Cirra. Xena's army torched the village when Callisto was a child, causing the death of most of her family. Xena and Gabrielle only ever visit Cirra once, however it is mentioned rather often, especially during plots involving Callisto.
In addition to Greece, Xena and Gabrielle visit numerous other nations during their travels including Italy (which is almost always referred to simply by the name of its capital, Rome), China, (almost always called Chin), Japan (only known as Jappa, and only seen in the finale, however, it was mentioned in passing in the episode "Who's Gurkhan"), India, Siberia, Egypt (called 'The land of the Pharaohs), South Africa and several Scandinavian countries.
The series (to keep with the ancient world setting, and to refrain from using the names of modern nations) often removed the last letter of a country's name, thus turning China to Chin, Japan to Jappa and so on; however, this formula was rarely perfect, as Chin was called China once by Gabrielle (likely just a continuity error), and several countries were just called by their modern names, such as India and Scandanavia. It should be noted though, that India was referred to as "Indus" by Eve once, which was, again, likely an error on the writer's part.
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