How Good Is Your Geography?? [3]

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Originally Posted by edv

Aha! A hint from the Donkey!
Elephants? That conjures up thoughts of Hannibal driving a herd of elephants from Carthage (Tunis) up through Spain, across southern France and over the Alps into Italy during the Punic Wars. As for "Zakantha" I would have no idea...is it the place where the elephants finally stopped advancing?

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I had no clue so I looked it up. I thought I knew a lot in this arena, but its a total blank area for me. You are on the right track however. ;)

well done edv that's close enough :up:
Zakantha is the Carthaginian name of the main town a couple of km away from where I am at the moment (see location ;) ). Hannibal apparently took it from the iberian natives after a long siege. The iberians had hoped for help from Rome, but Rome couldn't be arsed... stage set for the second punic war.
Zakantha -> Saguntum -> Sagunto (-> Sagunt), about 30 km north of Valencia, or 300 north of Cartagena :D

(39.676095, -0.277373) for the ruins of the Roman fortress at the top of the hill overlooking fields of orange trees.

Hadn't been there for a while, but I made the most of a cloudy day just now to go up to the castle... they have a new museum bit and it turns out Saguntum was originally called "Arse" :laugh: :laugh:

So I am in the arse of the world :p :

there is a greek island, famous in Homer, with a very similar name and a name still in use today (Zakanthos--which is what I thought the correct answer would be), unlike Zakantha, which is now really Sagunto
Jote needs to just spread his buzzard wings and fly up there

Too easy of a hint!

Daedalus Flew to Sikania aka Sicily

Well..... were waiting! :rolleyes:




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Since I can't seem to get a ruling from the poser of the question, I will ask one.
Apologies if I have spoken out of turn.

This is the current flag of what Kingdom?



http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~infinite/Peac...ata/TongaF.gif

Tonga, right?

You are Correct Sir! :up:

I wanted to put a picture up to show you all, but I can't do it, so i'll have to describe it.

I went on holiday to Portugal a year ago and I stayed in one city. In this one city on the remains of an old town wall it said "Aqui nasceu Portugal" or "Portugal was born here" and is where Portuguese independence was claimed. What's the name of the city?