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Olympus
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A total of nineteen mountains were referred to as Olympus (or in its common variation, Olympos) in antiquity [1] [2]. Some of these mountains are:
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See List of peaks named Olympus
- Greece
- Mount Olympus in Pieria, northern Greece, the home of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greek mythology;
- Turkey
- Mysian Olympus (present-day Uludağ), in northwest Turkey;
- Paphlagonian Olympus (present-day Mount Arıt near Bartın)[3];
- The valley of Olympos on the southern coast of Turkey, 90 km southwest of Antalya, near the town of Kemer;
- Cyprus
- Mount Olympus (Cyprus), the highest point (1952 m) on the island of Cyprus;
Mountains which have been named Olympus in more recent times are;
- United States
- Mount Olympus (Washington), on the Olympic Peninsula
- Mount Olympus (Utah), on the Wasatch Front
- Mars
- Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano and mountain in our solar system
- Olympus (musician), two semi-mythical musicians from the time of ancient Greece
- Greece
- Olympos, Karpathos, a town on the Greek island of Karpathos
- Olympos, Larissa, a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture
- Turkey
- Mount Olympus, Los Angeles, California, a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills
- Mount Olympus, San Francisco, California, in the neighborhood of Parnassus/Ashbury Heights
- Mount Olympus, Indiana, an unincorporated place
- Mount Olympus, Utah, a census-designated place
- Olympus Corporation, a Japanese optics and imaging company
- Rolls-Royce Olympus, a jet engine and marine turbine
- Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
- Olympus (phpBB), a codename for the third version of phpBB
- Olympos (novel), a science fiction novel by American author Dan Simmons
- Olympus Rally, a motorsport event in the Washington State, USA
- The Battle of Olympus, a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
- Olympus (Marvel Comics), a fictional location in Marvel Comics
- ^ George E. Bean. Aegean Turkey: An archaeological guide ISBN 978-0510032005, 1967 (in English). Ernest Benn, London.
- ^ "Greek, but islands apart" (in English). Los Angeles Times (1999-8-1).
- ^ William Ainsworth (1839). Notes on a Journey from Constantinople, by Heraclea, to Angora, in the Autumn of 1838, p. 236 (in English). Royal Geographical Society, London.
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