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Encyclopedia: Peloponnese

The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Greek: Πελοπόννησος Peloponnesos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a large peninsula in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. The peninsula is divided among two distinct peripheries of Greece, the Peloponnese and the West Greece peripheries.

Translations

How to say "Peloponnese" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	伯罗奔尼撒
	(Japanese)	ペロポネソス半島
	(German)	Peloponnes
	(Spanish)	Peloponeso
	(French)	Péloponnèse
	(Italian)	Peloponneso

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Pyrgos (disambiguation)

Pyrgos Pyrgos, Greece, a city in and the capital of Elia, Peloponnese in Western Greece. Pyrgos (Macedonia), Greece Pyrgos (Messenia), Greece, a tiny village SE of Philiátra...

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Ermioni

Ermioni is a small town in the Peloponese (of Greece). It is on a very small out-cropping of the land from the peloponnese facing the island of Hydra. You reach Ermioni within two hours by Hydrofoil from Athens...

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Orlov Revolt

The Orlov Revolt (1770) was a precursor to the Greek War of Independence (1821), which saw a Greek uprising in the Peloponnese at the instigation of Count Orlov, commander of the Russian Naval Forces of the Russo-Turkish War...

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Saronic Islands

the northeast tip of the Peloponnese (technically between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf... the Saronic Islands, which are regularly served by ferries from Piraeus and the Peloponnese...

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Argolic Gulf

The Argolic Gulf is a small gulf off the east coast of the Peloponnese, Greece, opening into the Aegean Sea. Its main island is Spetses. This gulf and its islands are sometimes combined with the Saronic Gulf and Saronic Islands, with the result called the Argo-Saronic Gulf and Argo-Saronic Islands...

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Dokos

Dokos is a small Greek island of the Argo-Saronic Gulf, adjacent to Hydra, and separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait called on some maps "the Hydra Gulf." The island is populated only by some Orthodox monks and perennial sheep herders...

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List of rivers in Greece

Neda River - Elia-Messenia boundary/border Peneus River (Peloponnese) Mediterranean Watershed... (Peloponnese) Peneus River (Tempe) Spercheios River Strymon/Strymonas River Sythas River...

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Achaean League

The Achaean League was a confederation of Greek city states in Achaea, a territory on the northern coast of the Peloponnese. An initial confederation existed during the 5th through the 4th century BC. The Achaean League reformed early in the 3rd century BC and played a political and military role...

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Franchthi

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Gulf of Corinth

The Gulf of Corinth is the body of water separating Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Isthmus of Corinth, and in the west by the strait of Rio-Antirio, crossed by the Rio-Antirio bridge. The Gulf was created by the expansion of a tectonic rift, and still...

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