peloponnese in English

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Peloponnesus, large peninsula that makes up the southern part of Greece

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1. Argos, Peloponnese, a city in Argolis, Greece

2. Skyllaion, in Troizenia, is the easternmost point of the Peloponnese.

3. Moreover, he would recognize the Emperor as governor of the Peloponnese.

4. That treaty, however, was soon undermined by renewed fighting in the Peloponnese.

5. Ancient Greek city-state, capital of Laconia and chief city of the Peloponnese .

6. Arna is a Village in Farida in Laconia in the Peloponnese Region of Greece

7. The Achaean League was a confederation of Greek city states based on the Peloponnese Peninsula

8. Corinth is the capital of Corinthia, a fertile county that’s situated in the northeast Peloponnese

9. It comprises the western part of continental Greece and the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

10. Corinth, Greek Kórinthos, an ancient and a modern city of the Peloponnese, in south-central Greece

11. Croton's oikistes (founder) was Myscellus who came from the city of Rhypes in Achaea in the northern Peloponnese

12. Because of this event, the Germans realised that the evacuation was also taking place from the ports of the eastern Peloponnese.

13. The quake's epicenter was located about 35 km (20 miles) southwest of the Greek port city of Patras in the Peloponnese region.

14. Achaea is the name of one of the regional units of Greece, located on the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula

15. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland, arguably making the peninsula an island.

16. In the historical period, the Achaeans were the inhabitants of the region of Achaea, a region in the north-central part of the Peloponnese.

17. Argives The inhabitants of Argos (especially of Sparta and Mycenae ) in the Peloponnese, but extended to cover all the Greeks who sailed for Troy

18. Corinth or Korinth (Greek: Κόρινθος, Kórinthos) is a modern town in the Peloponnese, a port and the capital of the prefecture of the same name

19. Achaea was founded in 1205 by William of Champlitte and Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, who undertook to conquer the Peloponnese on behalf of Boniface of Montferrat, King of Thessalonica

20. In 243 BC, in an attack by night, he seized the Acrocorinth, the strategically important fort by which Antigonus controlled the Isthmus of Corinth and thus the Peloponnese.

21. Achaian Peloponnese is ranked 166,147 th in the world and 44 th in The Universal Order of Nations for Most Average, scoring 31.13 on the Average Standardized Normality Scale.

22. The Achaean League or the League of Achaeans was a union of Greek city-states from the Central Peloponnese and Northern part of Greece during the Hellenistic era

23. Ibrahim sent an envoy to the Maniots demanding that they surrender or else he would ravage their land as he had done to the rest of the Peloponnese.

24. (1) Vertical alignment of stabling and service tracks for the 1 000 mm lines (of Peloponnese) shall not include curves of radii less than 500 m on a crest or in a hollow.

25. Venice obtained most of Dalmatia along with the Morea (the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece), though the Morea was restored to the Turks within 20 years by the Treaty of Passarowitz.

26. Vertical alignment of stabling and service tracks for the 1 000 mm lines (of Peloponnese) shall not include curves of radii less than 500 m on a crest or in a hollow.

27. Árgos, city, seat of the dímos (municipality) of Argos-Mykínes in the northeastern portion of the periféreia (region) of Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), Greece

28. The Greek Cypriots, who constitute nearly four-fifths of the population, descended from a mixture of aboriginal inhabitants and immigrants from the Peloponnese who colonized Cyprus starting about 1200 bc and assimilated subsequent settlers up to the 16th century.

29. Achaea today has about one-third of its peninsula's inhabitants and two-thirds of Achaia living in the Patra area which is the capital of Achaea and the Peloponnese, and more than half of the population live in the city (municipality)

30. The oldest Mycenaean structures to use the Cyclopean masonry technique, dating from 1500 to 1100 BC, are found in the fortified walls of Mycenea and Tiryns (modern day Athens and the Peloponnese area), and are characterized by huge irregular shaped blocks of limestone, often unworked, and stacked to form a wall.

31. Achaean League, 3rd-century- bc confederation of the towns of Achaea in ancient Greece. The 12 Achaean cities of the northern Peloponnese had organized a league by the 4th century bc to protect themselves against piratical raids from across the Corinthian Gulf, but this league fell apart after the death of Alexander the Great.

32. Achaean League, 3rd-century-bc confederation of the towns of Achaea in ancient Greece.The 12 Achaean cities of the northern Peloponnese had organized a league by the 4th century bc to protect themselves against piratical raids from across the Corinthian Gulf, but this league fell apart after the death of Alexander the Great.The 10 surviving cities renewed their alliance in 280 bc, and under

33. Achaea (/ ə ˈ k iː ə /) or Achaia (/ ə ˈ k aɪ ə /; Greek: Ἀχαΐα, Akhaia, Ancient Greek: ) was (and is) the northernmost region of the Peloponnese, occupying the coastal strip north of Arcadia.Its approximate boundaries were to the south the mountain range of Erymanthus, to the south-east the range of Cyllene, to the east Sicyon, and to the west the Larissos river.

34. Aeschines, orator and statesman of Athens, 390 or 389–314 BCE, became active in politics about 350.In 348 he was a member of a mission sent to the Peloponnese to stir up feeling against the growing power of king Philip of Macedon; but in 347, when part of a peace-making embassy to Philip, was won over to sympathy with the king, and became a supporter of the peace policy of the Athenian