peloponnesus in English

noun
1
the mountainous southern peninsula of Greece, connected to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth. Greek name Pelopónnisos.

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1. What does Achaea mean? Ancient region in the N Peloponnesus

2. However, a larger Allied army fortified the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, protecting the Peloponnesus from Persian conquest.

3. Achaea (əkē´ə), region of ancient Greece, in the northern part of the Peloponnesus on the Gulf of Corinth

4. Achaean in Homeric language, "a Greek," generally; later restricted to natives or inhabitants of Achaea, a region in the Peloponnesus

5. Arcady synonyms, Arcady pronunciation, Arcady translation, English dictionary definition of Arcady. also Ar·ca·dy A region of ancient Greece in the Peloponnesus

6. Cor·inth (kôr′ĭnth, kŏr′-) also Kó·rin·thos (kô′rĭn-thôs′) A city of southern Greece in the northeast Peloponnesus on the Gulf of Corinth

7. An inhabitant of Achaea. a Greek, especially a member of the Achaean League. a member of one of the four main divisions of prehistoric Greeks, believed to have occupied the Peloponnesus and to …

8. Corinth is located in southern Greece about 50 miles from Athens, and about two miles south of the narrow isthmus that forms a land bridge between the main landmass of Greece and the Peloponnesus

9. Anaxagoras was tried in court, probably for declaring that the sun was a mass of red-hot metal, larger than Peloponnesus, and expelled from Athens, where he had lived for 30 years

10. He reasoned that it was not the chariot of Helios, but instead a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than the land of the Peloponnesus and that the Moon reflected the light of the Sun.