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What was the connection between mount Olympus and Olympia in Greece?

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Completely different places. Mount Olympus is in the north-central part of Greece and is, obviously, a mountain. Olympia was a city-state in the Peloponnese (the hand-shaped peninsula that forms southern Greece). The Olympic Games were held at the shrine of Zeus in Olympia, not on Mount Olympus.
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