Daphne
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Daphne_From_Deverial_painting.jpg
Daphne_From_Deverial_painting.jpg
Daphne - From the painting by Deverial.
Things named after Daphne
- Daphne is also the title of an opera by Richard Strauss based on the myth of the nymph Daphne.
- Dafne is the name of an opera by Jacopo Peri (1597), no longer extant, and is considered to be the first opera ever composed.
- Daphne is also a genus of shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries.
- 41 Daphne is the name of an asteroid.
- Dafni, sometimes called Daphne, is also a suburb of Athens, Greece. It has an Athens Metro station (red line) and Vouliagmenis Avenue. It is the smallest municipality in Athens covering about 1 km². The city hall is in the south, 200 m near the municipal boundary. The municipality is divided in two, one covers 85% to 90% of the total area, and the southeast covers 15% or 10% (smaller than the Vatican) about 0.5 km². It sits on a hill and almost the entire land is used for residential purposes; there are no industrial factories in that part of suburban Athens. A hill is located to the north near the Athens municipal boundary. The main street is Boumpoulinas Avenue.
- Dafni is a quarter of Chaidari in the western part of Athens
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- Dafni, a town in the southermost part of Achaea, Greece.
- Dafni|Dafni is a village located E of Agia Marina and N of Aetorrachi in Ilia, Greece.
- Dafni, a village in the northwestern part of the island of Corfu
- Dafni is a village in central Corinthia
- Dafni, a village in the northcentral part of the island of Euboea, a village in the northern part of Eurytania
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- Dafni, a village in the northcentral part of the Evros prefecture
- Dafni, a village in the southwestern part of the prefecture of Fthiotis
- Dafni, a village in the northern part of the island of Icaria
- Dafni, a village in the western part of the prefecture of Kozani
- Dafni are two villages in southcentral Laconia, Dafni (Laconia), Greece near Lefkochora and Dafni (Xirokampi), Greece.
- Dafni, a village in the northcentral part of the island of Lemnos
- Dafni, sometimes called Daphne, is a village in the Pella prefecture of Greece. Its latitude is 40.769722° N and 22.226944° E. Its elevation is around 5 m.
- Dafni is a village in the southern part of the Serres prefecture
- Dafni is a village in the southeastern part of the prefecture of Viotia
- Dafni, is a village in the southern portion of the Xanthi area
- Daphne is the name of a city in the U.S. state of Alabama.
External link
Apollo and Daphne (http://digilander.libero.it/debibliotheca/Arte/bernini/bernini_apollo_and_daphne.jpg) - statue by Gian Lorenzo Berninide:Daphne es:Dafne fr:Daphné it:Dafne nl:Daphne pl:Dafne sv:Dafne
