Kymi
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Kymi (Greek: Κύμη, Kyme in Ancient Greek, Latinized as Cumae, Cyme or Cuma) is the name of two ancient Greek cities.
One is Kyme in Euboea, Greece; the modern town Kymi on the same location has a current population is 8,772 (2001). The Bronze Age settlement at Kymi has been excavated nearby at Mourteri. In the Iron Age, Kyme was among the earliest sources of Greek colonizations, establishing the homonymous colony of Cumae in southern Italy.
The other was Kyme in Aeolis, the modern Namurt Limani, Turkey. The father of Hesiod, the poet tells, came from Kyme in the Aeolian coast, which lay between Ionia and the Troad in northwestern Anatolia, to settle in Boeotia. Kyme was also among the first centres of development of Greek alphabetic writing, giving rise to the Cumae alphabet.
The Kymi River is also one of the longest rivers of Finland.
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