Things named after Daphne

• Daphne is also the title of an opera by Richard Strauss based on the myth of the nymph Daphne.
• Dafne is the name of an opera by Jacopo Peri (1597), no longer extant, and is considered to be the first opera ever composed.
• Daphne is also a genus of shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae , noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries.
• 41 Daphne is the name of an asteroid.
• Dafni , sometimes called Daphne, is also a suburb of Athens, Greece. It has an Athens Metro station (red line) and Vouliagmenis Avenue. It is the smallest municipality in Athens covering about 1 km². The city hall is in the south, 200 m near the municipal boundary. The municipality is divides in two, one covers 85% to 90% of the total area, and the southeast covers 15% or 10% (smaller than the Vatican) about 0.5 km². It sits on a hill and almost the entire land is covered with residential area; there are no industrial factories in that part of suburban Athens. A hill is located to the north near the Athens municipal boudnary. The main street is Boumpoulinas Avenue.

• • Population: 26,887 (1981), 24,152 (1991)
  • Area: 1 km²
  • Postal code: 172 00
  • Elevation: 70 m (lowest), 80 m (centre), 100 m (highest)
  • Location:
    • Longitude: 23.727/23°43'43
    • Latitude: 37.951/37°57'6
  • YPES code: 0114
  • Address of Adiministration: 16 Ellis and Kanari St. Dafni 172 35

• Dafni is a quarter of Chaidari in the western part of Athens
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• Dafni , a town in the southermost part of Achaea, Greece.
• Dafni|Dafni is a village located E of Agia Marina and N of Aetorrachi in Ilia, Greece.
• Dafni , a village in the northwestern part of the island of Corfu
• Dafni is a village in central Corinthia
• Dafni , a village in the northcentral part of the island of Euboea, a village in the northern part of Eurytania
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• Dafni , a village in the southwestern part of the prefecture of Fthiotis
• Dafni , a village in the western part of the prefecture of Kozani
• Dafni are two village in southcentral Laconia, Dafni (Laconia), Greece near Lefkochora and Dafni (Xirokampi), Greece .
• Dafni , sometimes called Daphne, is a village in the Pella prefecture of Greece. Its latitude is 40.769722° N and 22.226944° E. Its elevation is around 5 m.
• Dafni is a village in the southeastern part of the prefecture of Viotia
• Daphne is the name of a city in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Apollo and Daphne - statue by Gian Lorenzo Bernini