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Chryse (placename)

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Chryse is a name occurring in Ancient Greek geography, reported by ancient authors to have referred to the following places:

  • Chryse, an island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake
  • One of a pair of legendary islands, Chryse and Argyre, located in the Indian Ocean and said to be made of gold and silver
  • Chryse, a town mentioned in Homer's Iliad, from which Agamemnon took Chryseis
  • Chrysē nēsos (Golden Island), an ancient poetical name for the island Thasos, after its gold mines
  • Chryse, a promontory of Lemnos opposite Tenedos
  • Chryse, a place on Lesbos
  • Chryse, a city or place on Skyros
  • Chryse, a location in Caria in the area of Halicarnassus
  • Chryse, a city at Hellespontus located between Ophrynion and Abydos
  • Chryse in Bithynia, near Chalcedon
  • Chrysa, a place in Athens around Pnyx
  • Chryse or Chrysea, an island near Crete, now Gaidaronisi
  • Chryse is the Greek short name of gold-producing Chryse Chersonesos (The Golden Peninsula) in the East Indies, which may have referred to Malay peninsula
  • Chryse is the name that was applied by the geographer Ptolemy to the Philippines which means isle of gold
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