Amilos
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Amilos was a city in ancient Arcadia
Arcadia
Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...

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According to Pausanias
Pausanias (geographer)
Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical...

 it was a mountainous city founded 7 stadia (nearly 1 km) from Aristocrates' grave and the Tenean springs. Pausanias said that the village during the older years was a city and believed it fell and decayed. Amilos was a junction with the ancient road that connected Stymphelus separated, one road continued into Arcadia and passed into the Caphyae mountain which was steep and the other linked with Pheneos in which it was Arcadian and the only road linked with Arcadia.

The present location of the ancient city is unknown.
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