Elaea ( el, Ελαία) can refer to any of several different items in ancient geography.

Cities and towns

* Elaea (Aeolis), port of Pergamum, now near Zeytindağ, İzmir Province, Turkey * Elaea (Aethiopia), port in ancient Aethiopia * Elaea (Bithynia), port in ancient Bithynia *

Elaea (Epirus) Elaea or Elaia ( grc, Ἐλαία), also Elea (Ἐλέα), was a town of Thesprotia in ancient Epirus toward the mouth of the Acheron river. The town is mentioned by Ptolemy. Thucydides calls the surrounding district Elaeatis (Ἐλαιατις ...

, chief city of Elaeatis in Epirus at the mouth of the Acheron * Elaea (Lebanon), southeast of Sidon, Lebanon

Promontories

Elaea (promontory of Crete) Elaea or Elaia ( el, Ελαία) was the ancient name of a promontory on the northeast coast of Cyprus, which was mentioned by Ptolemy, (Ptol. v. 14. § 3) and is mapped by the Barrington Atlas on the southeast side of the Karpas Peninsula. A mispri ...

, near Palaikastro, in northeastern Crete, Greece *

Elaea (promontory of Cyprus) Elaea or Elaia ( el, Ελαία; tr, Zeytin Burnu) was the ancient name for a promontory of Cyprus, near the ancient city of Knidos. The cape lies within the territory of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey K ...

, in Cyprus

Other

* Elaea (river), in Boeotia, Greece * Elaea (mythology), a figure in Greek mythology * ''Elaea'' (mantis), an insect genus in the subfamily

Gonypetinae The ''Gonypetidae'' are a new (2019) family of praying mantids, based on the type genus '' Gonypeta''. The name was created by Westwood and it has been revived as part of a major revision of mantid taxonomy; the subfamily Iridopteryginae having ...

* Elaea (island), one of the Demonisi group, in Bithynia, now in Turkey {{geodis