Megara (grc)

Megara

Megara ranks 3,263rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Memphis, Egypt, Wetzlar, and Yorba Linda, California. Memorable people born in Megara include Euclid of Megara, Stilpo, and Eupalinos. Megara has been the birth place of many philosophers, and engineers. Megara is located in Greece.

Megara is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King Pandion II, of whom Nisos was the ruler of Megara. Megara was also a trade port, its people using their ships and wealth as a way to gain leverage on armies of neighboring poleis. Megara specialized in the exportation of wool and other animal products including livestock such as horses. It possessed two harbors, Pagae to the west on the Corinthian Gulf, and Nisaea to the east on the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea. Read more on Wikipedia