Κράνιοι

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Κράνιοι, πόλις ἐν Κεφαλληνίᾳ τῇ νήσῳ. τετράπολις δὲ ἡ νῆσος ἀπὸ τῶν Κεφάλου παίδων Πρόνου Σάμου Πηλέως Κρανίου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κρανιεῖς.

Kranioi: a city on the island of Kephallenia. The island is a tetrapolis, from the children of Kephalos: Pronos, Samos, Peleus, Kranios. The ethnonym is 'Kranieis'.

Text Details

Entry#206
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 381.18 · Billerbeck Κ206
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count21
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚράνιοιKranioi (Kranoi) · place
ΚεφαλληνίαCephalonia · place
ΚέφαλοςKephalos · person
ΠρῶνοςPronos · person
ΣάμοςSamos · person
ΠηλεύςPeleus · person
ΚράνιοςKranios · person
ΚρανιεῖςKranieis (inhabitants of Kranioi) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Eponym PersonThe island is a tetrapolis named from the sons of Cephalus: Pronous, Samos, Peleus, Kranios (i.e., the place-name Κράνιοι comes from the son Kranios).

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Herodian overlaps

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Last updated: 2026-04-12 10:11:05 UTC