Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital. The island has been known as Ρόδος (Ródos) which in ancient Greek was used to describe the pomegranate, whilst in modern Greek the same word is also used to de
Mendes was a famous city that attracted the notice of most ancient geographers and historians, including Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo, Mela, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Stephanus of Byzantium. The city was the capital of the Mendesian nome.
Gimmeldingen is a village, part of the town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany. Its origins, along with the village of Lobloch (which used to be connected), can be traced back to Roman settlements in 325 AD.