Editing Helike (section)

{{short description|Ancient Greek city-state}}
{{about|the ancient city in Greece|its Spanish colony|Elche|the nymph|Helike (mythology)|the Jovian moon|Helike (moon)}}
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  |location = [[Achaea]] regional unit, [[Greece]]
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'''Helike''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɛ|l|ᵻ|k|iː}}; {{langx|el|{{lang|grc|Ἑλίκη}}}}, pronounced {{IPA|el|heˈlikɛː|}}, modern {{IPA|el|eˈlici}}) was an ancient Greek [[polis]] or city-state<ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Achaia|page= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n498 482]}}</ref> that was submerged by a [[tsunami]] in the winter of 373 BC.

It was located in the [[Regional units of Greece|regional unit]] of [[Achaea]], northern [[Peloponnesos]], two kilometres (12 [[Stadia (length)|stadia]]) from the [[Corinthian Gulf]] and near the city of [[Boura, Greece|Boura]], which, like Helike, was a member of the [[Achaean League]]. Modern research attributes the catastrophe to an [[earthquake]] and accompanying tsunami which destroyed and submerged the city.

The remains of Helike were rediscovered in 2001 buried in an ancient [[lagoon]] near the village of [[Rizomylos, Achaea|Rizomylos]]. In an effort to protect the site from destruction, the [[World Monuments Fund]] included Helike in its 2004 and 2006 ''List of 100 Most Endangered Sites''.<ref name="WorldMonumentsFund">{{cite web|url=http://www.wmf.org/project/helike-archaeological-site|title=Helike Archaeological Site|publisher=[[World Monuments Fund]]|access-date=August 4, 2013}}</ref>