Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Elis” in book 8, chapter 1, section 2 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
... the extreme part of Argolis on this side. After Sicyon come the Achaeans who live along the coast at the other end of the Peloponnesus, opposite the Echinadian islands, dwell the Eleans. The land of Elis , on the side of Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheius, borders on Messenia; on the side of Achaia it borders on the land of Dyme.
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