Charisia
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Charisia modern Greek forms: Charissia and Hari(s)sia was an ancient 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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It was located 10 stadia (7 to 8 km) from Skias
Skias
Skias was an ancient settlement in ancient Arcadia.It was first mentioned by Pausanias in which he visited the region, it was 103 stadia from Tripoli, 70 stadia from Methydrium and 10 stadia from Charisia. Pausanias founded the settlement in ruins and was destroyed in which it mentioned in the...

 and next to Trikolones. Its name is derived from the settler Charisius
Charisius
Flavius Sosipater Charisius was a Latin grammarian.He was probably an African by birth, summoned to Constantinople to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on Terence...

, he was one of the 50 sons of Lycaon and the relative of Pelasgus
Pelasgus
In Greek mythology, Pelasgus was the eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians, the mythical inhabitants of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities. In the different parts of the country once occupied by Pelasgians, there existed...

. 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...

 mentioned about the city obviously in that time when he passed by was situated in a decline. It was one of the Arcadian ciites that settled in Megalopolis
Megalopolis, Greece
Megalópoli is a town in the western part of the peripheral unit of Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located in the same site as ancient Megalopolis . "Megalopolis" is a Greek word for Great city. When it was founded, in 371 BC, it was the first urbanization in rustic and primitive Arcadia. In...

 and the founded by Epameinondas..

The location of the ancient city has never been founded, it is believed to be founded in the area of the modern Trilofos.
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