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tonos
The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
Larnaca
A city on the south coast of Cyprus, capital of the district of the same name
Ellada
Greece.
Pyrgos
A town in Elis, Peloponnese, Greece, not far from Olympia.