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Peloponnese

noun
1.
The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC.  Synonyms: Peloponnesian Peninsula, Peloponnesus.





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"Peloponnese" Quotes from Famous Books



... They represented either a class of the whole population, or, according to Busolt, a commercial nobility (see EUPATRIDAE). In the sense of "worker for the people" the word was used throughout the Peloponnese, with the exception of Sparta, and in many parts of Greece, for a higher magistrate. The demiurgi among other officials represent Elis and Mantineia at the treaty of peace between Athens, Argos, Elis and Mantineia ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various
... devices applied: throws light on the date of the Cyropaedia, after the Scilluntine days, probably. [After Xenophon was exiled from Athens, his Spartan friends gave him a house and farm at Scillus, a township in the Peloponnese, not far from Olympia. See Sketch of Xenophon's Life, Works, Vol. I., ...
— Cyropaedia - The Education Of Cyrus • Xenophon


Words linked to "Peloponnese" :   peninsula, Olympia, Sparta, Greece, Peloponnesian Peninsula, Hellenic Republic, Peloponnesus, Ellas


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