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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 131
Land area (2000): 0.116619 sq. miles (0.302041 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.116619 sq. miles (0.302041 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42938
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.417943 N, 88.288957 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62440
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lerna
Wikipedia
In classical Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. Its site near the village Mili at the Argolic Gulf is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity when Heracles killed it, as the second of his labors. The strong Karstic springs remained; the lake, diminished to a silt lagoon by the 19th century, has vanished.
Lerna is notable for several archaeological sites, including an Early Bronze Age structure known as House of the Tiles, dating to the Early Helladic period II (2500–2300 BC).
Lerna is a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was Myloi. Population 3,042 (2001).
Lerna was a region in classical Greece.
Lerna may also refer to:
- Lerna, Illinois, village
- Lerna Regio, region on Io
- Lerna (moth), genus
- Lerna (municipal unit), former municipality in Greece
Usage examples of "lerna".
Fighting first in lerna, then in Britain, we chased Amilcar, that greedy boar of battle, over most of Lloegres before he was subdued.
One moment he is at the Pendragon's side, the next he is away to Caer Edyn in the north, or sailing back from lerna, visiting this lord or that one, consulting bishops and abbots, testing the wind for portents, delving into Druid lore.
Further, you will go with us to Caer Melyn, where you will be put on a ship and exiled to lerna, where your crime will be known to your people.