Margana ( grc, Μάργανα) or Margalae or Margalai (Μαργάλαι) or Margaea or Margaia (Μάργαια) was a town in the Pisatis in

ancient Elis Elis () or Eleia ( el, Ήλιδα, Ilida, grc-att, Ἦλις, Ēlis ; Elean: , ethnonym: ) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis. Elis is in southern Greece on the Peloponnese, bounded on th ...

, in the territory of

Amphidolia Amphidolis ( grc, Ἀμφιδολίς) or Amphidolia (Ἀμφιδολία) was a town of the Pisatis district in ancient Elis. Its territory was probably to the west of Acroreia, and included the town of Marganeae (or Margalae). Amphidolis is ment ...

, was supposed by some to be the Homeric

Aepy Aipy or Aepy ( grc, Αἶπυ) was a city in ancient Elis, Greece. It was one of the oldest towns in Elis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in ''Iliad'', as one of the territories ruled by Nestor. Homer uses the expression "ἐΰκτ� ...

. The Eleians were obliged to renounce their supremacy over it by the treaty which they made with

Sparta Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...

in 400 BCE, on which occasion it is called one of the Triphylian towns. It is mentioned as one of the towns taken by the Arcadians in their war with the Eleians in 366 BCE. Margana's site has not been located.

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