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A swampy valley is also the image that the Early Travellers give of Nemea in the late 18th and first three-quarters of the 19th century. A small village on the slopes on the western side of the valley (Koutsomadi) was destroyed by earthquakes in 1858 and 1861, but rebuilt both times. In 1883-1884 French engineers, active in reclaiming land for agricultural purposes in various parts of Greece, dug a new "river", the valley was drained, and the modern village of Ancient Nemea (then called Herakleion) was founded. 
Nemean Valley in July, 1813, from the South, by Baron Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, in La Grèce, vues pittoresques et topographiques (Paris 1834) pl. 30.
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