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for Atlantis, to the extent where
the name has become a concept
in itself aside from what Plato
had said. In history most of the
proposed locations were in or near
the Mediterranean Sea. The islands
around this part were Sardinia,
Crete, Santorini, Sicily, Cyprus, in fact this tsunami was what sunk
and Malta. With land based cities the island of Atlantis. Before sixth
or states such as Troy, Tartessos, century BC, the mountains on each
and Tantalis. Because of the Thea side of the Gulf of Laconia also
eruption during the seventeenth or known as the “Pillars of Hercules”
sixteenth century BC causing a huge was the exact location where
tsunami, people hypothesized that Plato was mentioning when he