Aigeira ( el, Αιγείρα) (, grc, Αἰγείρα or Αἴγειρα, la, Aegeira) is a town and a former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in northeastern
Achaea
Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...
,
West Greece
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,
Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been a municipal unit of the
Aigialeia
Aigialeia ( el, Αιγιάλεια, ) is a municipality and a former Provinces of Greece, province (επαρχία) in the eastern part of the Achaea regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Aigio. The municipality has an ar ...
municipality,
with an area of 103.646 km
2.
The municipal unit stretches from the
Gulf of Corinth
The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf ( el, Κορινθιακός Kόλπος, ''Korinthiakόs Kόlpos'', ) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Isth ...
, where the town of Aigeira is located, to the mountains in the south. The town of Aigeira is southeast of
Aigio
Aigio, also written as ''Aeghion, Aegion, Aegio, Egio'' ( el, Αίγιο, Aígio, ; la, Aegium), is a town and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, on the Peloponnese. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipali ...
, northwest of
Corinth
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and east of
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The archaeological site of ancient Aigeira is located approximately 6km from the modern town. It is an important site for the
Mycenaean and later periods, with particularly extensive remains from the
Hellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
period. It has been excavated since 1916 by archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute.
History
Prehistory
Settlement at Aigeira is known from the Middle
Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...
and Final Neolithic, beginning around 5500 BCE. The first settlement was situated on the
acropolis
An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens, ...
, and has furnished evidence of pottery, including vessels likely used in the production of cheese. A small quantity of
obsidian
Obsidian () is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extrusive rock, extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth. It is an igneous rock.
Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements s ...
blades, using material from
Melos
Milos or Melos (; el, label=Modern Greek, Μήλος, Mílos, ; grc, Μῆλος, Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the Cyclades group.
The ''Venus d ...
, have also been found from this period. Some evidence of Neolithic settlement has been found on a lower plateau, approximately 150m to the east of the acropolis.
Patterns of settlement around the
Gulf of Corinth
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in the Final Neolithic show a few 'main sites' and a much greater number of apparently-transient settlements, used only briefly before abandonment. In the Early Helladic period (beginning around 3100 BCE), settlements appear to become more permanent, being used over multiple chronological phases, and to be involved in more intense contacts between each other, particularly maritime exchange. While there is a great deal of evidence for social and cultural continuity at Aigeira between the Final Neolithic and Early Helladic, particularly as concerns patterns of food production and consumption, there are also signs of technological development, particularly in higher-temperature ceramic production, the use of flax or double fibres in textiles, and possibly the addition of arsenic to copper in metallurgy.
In the EH II period, the acropolis site was abandoned, and settlement moved to a low-lying and more fertile site at Kassaneva, close to the
Krios river. The acropolis was re-occupied in the Middle Helladic period: little evidence of this phase survives, though what does exist points to new cultural connections with the western Peloponnese.
Relatively little is known of Aigeira for most of the Late Helladic period. Aigeira has been proposed as the centre of one of two putative Mycenaean states in Achaia, but no signs of palatial structures or administration have been found at the site, making it difficult to argue that Aigeira was the centre of the sort of state apparatus seen in contemporary palatial centres like
Mycenae
Mycenae ( ; grc, Μυκῆναι or , ''Mykē̂nai'' or ''Mykḗnē'') is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about south-west of Athens; north of Argos; and south of Corinth. Th ...
or
Pylos
Pylos (, ; el, Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is th ...
. Indeed, the relatively low level of monumentality found in tombs and buildings at this period suggests that local elites, while undoubtedly evidenced from the use of chamber tombs, did not possess the ability to mobilise even relatively small amounts of skilled labour, unlike the contemporary palatial elites elsewhere. Furthermore, the lack of ''
tholos'' tombs in the vicinity, which are closely associated with palatial elites at other Mycenaean sites, lacks a conclusive explanation: it has been argued that this situation may represent the lack of penetration of palatial social structures and ideology into Achaea, or perhaps that distant centres, such as Mycenae and
Aegina
Aegina (; el, Αίγινα, ''Aígina'' ; grc, Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina (mythology), Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born ...
, were able to inhibit the growth of Achaean elites, if not to control them directly.
Only a few pieces of pottery are known from the LH IIIB period, mostly found on the terraces below the acropolis, and it is possible that the settlement moved to another location, perhaps nearer the coast, during LH IIIB, returning to its original location early in LH IIIC.
In the LH IIIC period, the settlement appears to have been destroyed by fire, and rebuilt soon after. Of particular note in this phase is the substantial fortification wall constructed on the eastern side of the new settlement – the only such structure known from this period on the Greek mainland, and one of only two contemporary examples known in the Aegean (alongside
Naxos
Naxos (; el, Νάξος, ) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock rich in corundum, which until modern times was one of the best abr ...
). Unusually for Aegean sites in this period, LH IIIC appears to have been a time of sustained occupation, growth and prosperity: excavations between 2011 and 2016 found evidence of a 'lower town', approximately 12,000m
2 in area, centred on the acropolis and occupied over numerous chronological phases in LH IIIC. The distributions of finds of pottery, particularly ''pithoi'', led excavators to conclude that this was a settlement composed of households, characterised by the storage and production of goods as well as feasting. A 'cult room' for religious purposes also dates to this period. Evidence of pottery practices suggests a degree of cultural continuity with the pre-destruction era, with characteristic Mycenaean shapes continuing to be manufactured.
Tombs associated with Aigeira have been found dating to the early part of Late Helladic III, including
chamber tombs
A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. In the case of individual burials, the chamber is thought to signify a higher status for the interred than a simple grave. Built from rock or sometimes wood, the chambers could ...
excavated by the Greek archaeologist Nikolaos Verdelis in 1956 at Lykovouno/Derveni, approximately 1.2 km southeast of the settlement. In LH IIIC, these tombs continued to be re-used, but some innovations in funerary practice are observed: instead of re-opening the chambers and interring new bodies, rectangular trenches, known as 'dormitories', were dug into the floors of the tombs.
Classical and Hellenistic Periods
![Ancient Aigeira Archaeological site](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Ancient_Aigeira_Archaeological_site.jpg)
Like many Aegean sites, Aigeira was
abandoned at the end of the Bronze Age, following the destruction of the site at the end of LH IIIC Middle. Occupation began again in the second half of the 8th century BCE, likely associated with the sanctuary at the site, and included areas of the 'lower town' previously occupied in LH IIIC. Some partial fortifications are known from the Archaic period, covering an area of around 3.5
hectares
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.
In the ''
Iliad
The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odysse ...
'', Aigeira was known as Hyperesia. In the 2nd century CE,
Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
* Pausanias of Sicily, physician of t ...
recorded a story of how the town came to change its name:
Pausanias relates that the old name of 'Hyperesia' continued in use: indeed, he elsewhere records that
Icarus of Hyperesia was proclaimed victor in the 23rd
Olympiad
An olympiad ( el, Ὀλυμπιάς, ''Olympiás'') is a period of four years, particularly those associated with the ancient and modern Olympic Games.
Although the ancient Olympics were established during Greece's Archaic Era, it was not until ...
in 688 BC.; Eusebius refers his name as Icarius.
, while Cratinus, the winner of the Olympic prize for boys' wrestling in 260 BC, is named as a citizen of 'Aigeira'.
Aigeira was a member of the
Achaean League
The Achaean League (Greek: , ''Koinon ton Akhaion'' "League of Achaeans") was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese. The league was named after the region of Achaea in the northwestern Pel ...
during its first period of existence in the early fourth century BCE, and again when it was re-founded in 284 BCE, after collapsing shortly after 323 BCE. During this period, probably early in the 4th century, the nearby town of Aigai appears to have been abandoned or become depopulated, and its citizens incorporated into the citizen body of Aigeira. Perhaps in commemoration of this, the coins of Aigeira began to use the symbol of a goat, previously used in the coinage of Aigai, and continued to do so throughout the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
The
Hellenistic period
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 3 ...
appears to have been a time of great growth, with the size of the settlement increasing by as much as fourteen times, perhaps owing to money from the Achaean League. The city was re-fortified in this period with a circuit wall, which encompassed around 50 ha. Excavations in the later 20th century uncovered a building complex, known as the 'guest house', dating approximately to the mid-4th century BCE. This building included mosaic flooring and has been suggested to have been a residence for foreign diplomatic delegations. It was used until the 1st century BCE, by which point it had been extended and modified multiple times and occupied a surface area around 1,000 m².
Around 280 BCE, the theatre was built, along with an adjacent ''
naiskos
The naiskos (pl.: naiskoi; el, ναΐσκος, diminutive of ναός "temple") is a small temple in classical order with columns or pillars and pediment.
Ancient Greece
Often applied as an artificial motif, it is common in ancient art. It al ...
''. Throughout the Hellenistic period, the area of the theatre became the central point for public building, and further structures, including a temple dedicated to the goddess
Tyche
Tyche (; Ancient Greek: Τύχη ''Túkhē'', 'Luck', , ; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. In Classical Greek mythology, she is the daughter of Aphrodite a ...
, were added. To this period also belong the 2nd-century-BCE fragments of a colossal statue of Zeus, sculpted by the Athenian sculptor Eucleides, now held in the
National Archaeological Museum in Athens and once displayed in a temple of Zeus. Other temples in the upper town included a temple of
Apollo
Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...
and temples of
Artemis Agrotera and of
Aphrodite Urania
Aphrodite Urania ( grc, Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, Aphrodítē Ouranía) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying "heavenly" or "spiritual", to distinguish her from her more earthly aspect of Aphrodite Pandemos, "Aphrodi ...
, and of the
Syrian Goddess
Atargatis (; grc, Ἀτάργατις, translit=Atárgatis or arc, , translit=ʿtrʿth; syc, ܬܪܥܬܐ, translit=Tarʿaṯā) was the chief goddess of northern Syria in Classical antiquity. Ctesias also used the name Derketo ( grc-koi, Δε ...
. According to Pausanias,
Serapis
Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian deity. The cult of Serapis was promoted during the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his r ...
and
Isis
Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingd ...
were also worshipped in the city, pointing to contact with
Ptolemaic Egypt.
Along with the other members of the Achaean League, Aigeira fought alongside
Philip V of Macedon
Philip V ( grc-gre, Φίλιππος ; 238–179 BC) was king ( Basileus) of Macedonia from 221 to 179 BC. Philip's reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of the Roman Republic. He would lead Macedon ag ...
against the
Aetolian League
The Aetolian (or Aitolian) League ( grc-gre, Κοινὸν τῶν Αἰτωλῶν) was a confederation of tribal communities and cities in ancient Greece centered in Aetolia in central Greece. It was probably established during the early Hellen ...
in the
Social War of 220-217 BCE. In the early stages of the war, in 219 BCE, the city was attacked and temporarily occupied by
Aetolian
Aetolia ( el, Αἰτωλία, Aἰtōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.
Geography
The Achelous River separates Aetolia ...
forces, who had set sail from the opposite town of
Oeantheia Oeantheia or Oiantheia ( grc, Οἰάνθεια) or Oeanthe (Οἰάνθη) or Euanthis (Εὐανθίς)''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'', p. 14. or Euanthia (Εὐανθία) was an important town of the Ozolian Locrians, situated at the western entra ...
in
Locris
Locris (; el, label=Modern Greek, Λοκρίδα, Lokrída; grc, Λοκρίς, Lokrís) was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of three distinct districts.
Locrian tribe
The city of Locri in Calabria (Italy), a ...
. A hoard of nearly 600 silver coins, found in the so-called 'guest house' has been conjectured to have been hidden there in the course of this raid.
By the 2nd century CE, when Pausanias visited, the city consisted of two parts, both known as 'Aigeira': a port on the
Gulf of Corinth
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and the upper town, 12
stadia
Stadia may refer to:
* One of the plurals of stadium, along with "stadiums"
* The plural of stadion, an ancient Greek unit of distance, which equals to 600 Greek feet (''podes'').
* Stadia (Caria), a town of ancient Caria, now in Turkey
* Stadi ...
() from the port.
Between around 150 CE and 250 CE, the natural harbour was supplemented with concrete constructions, particularly two breakwaters built in ''
opus caementicium
Roman concrete, also called , is a material that was used in construction in ancient Rome. Roman concrete was based on a hydraulic-setting cement. It is durable due to its incorporation of pozzolanic ash, which prevents cracks from spreading. B ...
''. It is possible that earlier harbour structures existed, since obscured by the Roman construction and later seismic activity.
Aigeira continued to be occupied throughout the Roman period, and new structures were built into Late Antiquity, sometimes re-using spolia from older buildings.
In the 3rd century CE, a massive
seismic uplift left the harbour structures approximately four metres above sea level, rendering the port unusable; this event may be connected with a third-century earthquake which destroyed the city itself. Aigeira underwent a period of decline in the 4th and 5th century CE, with an apparent fall in population and the conversion of many formerly public buildings and temples into workshops.
Medieval Period
The acropolis continued to be occupied until at least the 12th century, as attested by finds of coins and pottery; a new conduit for water was built at some point during this period. Some time in the medieval period, the site was re-fortified with a perimeter wall incorporating many ancient
spolia
''Spolia'' (Latin: 'spoils') is repurposed building stone for new construction or decorative sculpture reused in new monuments. It is the result of an ancient and widespread practice whereby stone that has been quarried, cut and used in a built ...
, which likely dates to approximately the 11th-12th centuries.
Modern Times
Around 1900, the so-called 'Houses of the Raisin-Pickers' were built, using ''spolia'' from the ancient city, which appears by this time to have been in use as a large quarry.
Archaeology
Early excavations at Aigeira were often partial and patchily recorded. In the late 19th century, the Greek archaeologist
Valerios Stais
Valerios Stais ( el, Βαλέριος Στάης; b. Kythira 1857 – d. Athens 1923) was a Greek archaeologist. He initially studied medicine but later switched to archaeology obtaining his Doctorate from the University of Halle (Saale) in 1885 ...
uncovered an inscription bearing part of
Diocletian
Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...
Edict on Maximum Prices
The Edict on Maximum Prices (Latin: ''Edictum de Pretiis Rerum Venalium'', "Edict Concerning the Sale Price of Goods"; also known as the Edict on Prices or the Edict of Diocletian) was issued in 301 AD by Diocletian. The document denounces mono ...
, issued in 301 CE, though he did not record either the precise circumstances or the location of the finds. During his survey of the Peloponnese in 1836,
William Martin Leake
William Martin Leake (14 January 17776 January 1860) was an English military man, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He served in the British military, spending much of his career in the
Mediterrane ...
discovered the remains of the harbour at a small cove then known as Mavra Litharia, but they attracted little archaeological attention until the 1990s. In 1904,
Hans Schrader Johann (Hans) Hermann Schrader (15 February 1869, Stolp – 5 November 1948, Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian.
He was a student at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin, where he was a pupil of Reinhard Kekulé von S ...
acquired objects from a Mycenaean grave with 'Aigeira' listed as the find-spot, but the excavation that produced these has gone unrecorded.
The first formal excavations took place in 1916 and 1925 under
Otto Walter and the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna. Walter discovered the Hellenistic theatre, as well as three ''naiskoi'' in the area.
In 1972, excavations resumed under
Wilhelm Alzinger, who led them until 1988. Alzinger's excavations focused on the acropolis, the theatre, the ruins of the temple of Zeus and the space between the theatre and the temple of Zeus. Several further ''naiskoi'' were discovered near the theatre, including one with a pebble floor mosaic representing an eagle with a serpent, as well as the ''Tycheion ''(sanctuary of
Tyche
Tyche (; Ancient Greek: Τύχη ''Túkhē'', 'Luck', , ; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. In Classical Greek mythology, she is the daughter of Aphrodite a ...
) described by Pausanias. Between 1975 and 1980, much of the 'lower town' was also uncovered. During Alzinger's tenure,
Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy worked on the excavations from 1975 to 1986, primarily analysing and publishing the late Mycenaean pottery.
Excavations between 1990 and 1997, under Anton Bammer, focused on a survey of the urban area and investigated, ''inter alia'', the water supply and public spaces of the city. Georg Ladstätter lead the excavations from 1998, with continued focus on the water supply and on domestic buildings.
Since 2002, excavations have been under the jurisdiction of the
Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens
The Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens (german: Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut (ÖAI) Athen; el, Αυστριακό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institut ...
. In 2007, the so-called 'prehistoric layer' was uncovered and defined, providing the first proof of habitation at Aigeira before the Bronze Age.
Subdivisions
The municipal unit of Aigeira is subdivided into the following communities:
*Aigeira
*
Aiges
*
Ampelokipoi
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Chrysanthio Chrysanthio ( el, Χρυσάνθιο, before 1957: Βερσοβά - ''Versova'') is a village in the municipal unit of Aigeira, Achaea, Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. I ...
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Exochi
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Monastiri
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Oasi
''Oasi'' (also known as ''Oasis'') is a 1994 Italian romance-drama film written and directed by Cristiano Bortone.
The film was screened out of competition at the 51st edition of the Venice Film Festival.
Plot
Cast
* Henry Arnold as Simon ...
*
Perithori
*
Seliana
Seliana ( el, Σελιάνα) also known as Phelloe ( el, Φελλόη) is a village in the municipal unit of Aigeira, in the eastern part of Achaea, north Peloponnese, Greece. The village had a population of 52 in 2011. Aigeira is 10 km t ...
*
Sinevro
*
Vella
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Historical population
Sport
The town is home to the
Aigeira Municipal Stadium, which features an artificial turf pitch and a gravel running track.
![Municipal Stadium of Aigera](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Municipal_Stadium_of_Aigera.jpg)
Its major soccer team is A.O. Thyella Aigeiras. Since July 2018 the club merged with the local football team of the neighbour town of Akrata forming a new club under the name A.E. Aigeiras/Akratas.
Aigeira is also home to non-league amateur football club Panaigeiratikos.
Transport
The
Greek National Road 8A
Greek National Road 8a ( el, Εθνική Οδός 8a, abbreviated as EO8a) was a toll road in the Attica, Peloponnese and West Greece regions. It connected Athens with the cities of Corinth and Patras. It was built in the 1960s as a replacemen ...
(
E65 Corinth - Patras) and the Corinth-Patras railway run through the town.
See also
*
List of settlements in Achaea
This is a list of settlements in Achaea, Greece:
* Achaiko
* Agia Marina
* Agia Varvara, Akrata
* Agia Varvara, Tritaia
* Agios Konstantinos
* Agios Nikolaos Kralis
* Agios Nikolaos Spaton
* Agios Nikolaos
* Agios Stefanos (Peristera)
* A ...
Gallery
File:Aigeira2.JPG, Theatre in Aigeira
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