Ifølge flere kilder var amazonernes hovedstad ''[[Themiscyra]]'' ([[Anatolien]]).<ref>Sue Blundell, ''Women in Ancient Greece'' (1995), p. 60 : "For other ancient authors the Amazons, in spite of their separatist habits, were not immune to the lure of sexual desire. The fifth-century historian [[Herodotus]] recounts how some Amazons from Themiscyra who had been taken prisoner by a ..."</ref><ref name="THE AMAZONS IN GREEK LEGEND">[http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/rca/rca02.htm THE AMAZONS IN GREEK LEGEND]</ref><ref name="AESCHYLUS, PROMETHEUS BOUND">[http://www.theoi.com/Text/AeschylusPrometheus.html AESCHYLUS, PROMETHEUS BOUND]</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0400%3Achapter%3D14 Pseudo-Plutarch-XIV, TANAIS]</ref><ref>Strabo, Geography, Book XI, Chapter 5</ref>
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