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Elefsina

Elefsina proper noun: a suburban city and municipality in the West Attica regional unit regional unit of Greece, site of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Proper noun

Elefsina

  1. A suburban city and municipality in the West Attica regional unit regional unit of Greece, site of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
    • The city of Elefsina is located around 20 km outside Athens, in the western part of Attica, and it has approximately 30,000 inhabitants.2021, Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner, Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas, editors, The Politics of Local Innovation: Conditions for the Development of Innovations, Routledge, →ISBN

Forms of Elefsina

alternative formEleusis

Origin of Elefsina

Borrowed from Greek Ελευσίνα (Elefsína).

Questions about Elefsina

What does Elefsina mean?
Elefsina means a suburban city and municipality in the West Attica regional unit regional unit of Greece, site of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
What part of speech is Elefsina?
Elefsina is a proper noun.

Words near Elefsina in the dictionary

  1. eleemosynary corporation
  2. eleemosynary corporations
  3. eleemosynous
  4. eleet
  5. Elefen
  6. Elefsina
  7. elegaic
  8. elegance
  9. elegances
  10. elegancies
  11. elegancy

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