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Cuma (genus)
Cuma or CUMA may refer to: Places and jurisdictions ;In Europe * Cuma (Euboea), former name of Kymi, a coastal town on Euboea island, Greece * Cuma (Italy), an ancient Greek colony, near Naples ** its Diocese of Cuma (Italy), former bishopric and present Latin titular see * Monte di Cuma, a mountain near Licola, Italy, in Naples province * Cuma-ı Bala, an old Turkish name for Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria * Eski Cuma, an old Turkish name for Targovishte in Bulgaria ;Elsewhere * Cuma (Aeolis), an Aeolian city in Asia Minor ** its Diocese of Cuma (Asia Minor), former bishopric and present Latin titular see * Cuma, Azerbaijan, a village in Azerbaijan * Cuma, Namibia, a village in the Rundu Rural East constituency of Namibia People * Tyler Cuma, a Canadian major junior ice hockey defenceman * Cuman people, nomadic people in Eurasia Mythology * Čuma, a personification of plague in Serbian mythology Abbreviations * CUMA, a type of frogman's rebreather designed and made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuma (Euboea)
Kymi (Greek language, Greek: , ) is a coastal town and a former municipality (7,112 inhabitants in 2011) in the island of Euboea, Greece, named after an ancient Greek place of the same name. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kymi-Aliveri, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 167.616 km2. The ancient Euboean Kyme is mentioned as a harbor town related to the more prominent ''polis, poleis'' of Chalkis and Eretria in antiquity. Together with these, it is sometimes named as the founding ''metropolis'' of the homonymous Cumae, Kymē (Cumae) in Italy, an important early Euboean colony, which was probably named after it. There are few or no archaeological traces of ancient Euboean Kyme, and its exact location is not known. A Bronze Age settlement has been excavated in nearby Mourteri. Some modern authors believe that Kyme never existed as an independent ''polis'' in historical times but that it was a mere village depen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |