Olympia
town on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, site of the ancient Olympic Games
Facts
19 propertiesIdentity
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 37.638°, 21.630°[13]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Ancient Olympia Municipality[2]
- Postal code
- 270 25[9]
More facts +12
- Area
- +106[33]
- Culture
- Ancient Greece[34]
- Described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The American Cyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]
- Director of archaeological fieldwork
- Gustav Hirschfeld
- Elevation above sea level
- +69[32]
- Heritage designation
- World Heritage Site, archaeological site in Greece[30][31]
- Local dialing code
- 26240[10]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Ancient Elis[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Longavico
en Olimpia
en Olympia Pissa
en Olympia Pisa
en Olympia, Greece
en Olympia
en Lagganico Sauro
en Longanico
ar أركيا أوليمبيا، إليا
ar أوليمبيا
cs Olympie
cs Olympia
el Ολυμπία
el Αρχαία Ολυμπία
fa المپیا
he אולימפיה
hi ओलम्पिया
hi ओलिम्पिया
hu Olümpia
ja オリュンピア
🔖 Identifiers · 48
- ISNI
- 0000000107482012
- VIAF cluster ID
- 267044076, 23166290245600461932
- GND ID
- 4043508-8
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Olympic Flame, the Start of the Olympic Torch Relay (51224124860).jpg ↗
- Alvin ID
- alvin-place:5723
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 8071
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
- olimpija
- BHCL UUID
- 894fc367-9152-45be-9b89-98e4b7e00b88
- BIBSYS ID
- 90842979
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- olympia-20
- Described at URL
- odysseus.culture.gr
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
- 21945
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- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- olympie
- Freebase ID
- /m/01swlf
- Google Arts & Culture entity ID
- g1jkv_bb5f
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Olympia
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2685284
- Grove Art Online ID
- T063529
- Interlingual Index ID
- i83064
- Joconde discovery ID
- T115-3786
- Joconde location ID
- T84-3218
- Museum-digital place ID
- 1282
- NE.se ID
- olympia
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge214859
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- geo/E8A2A01E-FA07-4245-9575-1E3F14C5184F
- National Library of Lithuania ID
- LNB:DJ6O;=1A
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3950853
- OpenStreetMap way ID
- 39984003
- Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
- 4542
- Pleiades ID
- 570531
- Quora topic ID
- Olympia-Greece
- Topic's main category
- Category:Ancient Olympia
- ToposText place ID
- 376216SOly
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- olimpia
- Vatican Library ID (former scheme)
- ADV12321524
- Vatican Library VcBA ID
- 497/13810
- Vikidia article ID
- fr:Olympie
- Who's on First ID
- 1125810851
- Wiki Loves Monuments ID
- GR-G14-0049
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 08808805-n
- World Heritage Site ID
- 517
- World History Encyclopedia ID
- Olympia
- Yale LUX ID
- place/e8534f2c-7a55-4a62-a30d-900c78cbe1d3
📚 Sources · 1
- isni_public ISNI International Agency (isni.org), CC0 1.0 — no attribution required, credited by choice
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Library of Congress Authorities IDP244
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- Source
- isni_public
- Edition
- 20261001 · as of 2026-10-01
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
- Credit
- ISNI International Agency (isni.org), CC0 1.0 — no attribution required, credited by choice
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Located in this place 24
Has these parts 21
← Work location 5
Contained subdivisions 4
Described by source 4
People who died here 4
← Start point 4
Named after 2
← Location of discovery 2
Continent 1
Country 1
Created notable works 1
Culture 1
Dedicated to 1
Director of archaeological fieldwork 1
Heritage designation 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in/on physical feature 1
Residents 1
Topic's main category 1
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Summary
Olympia is an Ancient Greek archaeological site[1].
Body
Brands and Namesakes
Things named for Olympia include 582 Olympia[40], an asteroid[41] and Olimpic motorcycles[42], a brand[43], in Spain[44], founded in 1953[45], headquartered in Igualada[46].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Olympia include 582 Olympia[40], an asteroid[41] and Olimpic motorcycles[42], a brand[43], in Spain[44], founded in 1953[45], headquartered in Igualada[46].