Peloponnese

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1. Peloponnese - Noun

2. Peloponnese - Proper noun

Meaning

the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC

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I was born in 1770, on April the 3rd, on the Easter Monday. The rebellion in the Peloponnese broke out in 1769. I was born under a tree on a mountain called Ramovouni, situated in old Messenia. Theodoros Kolokotronis

After the Fall of Constantinople, Mehmed would also go on to conquer the Despotate of Morea in the Peloponnese in 1460, and the Empire of Trebizond in northeastern Anatolia in 1461. Source: Internet

By the 8th century, Slavs had occupied most of the Balkans from Austria to the Peloponnese, and from the Adriatic to the Black seas, with the exception of the coastal areas and certain mountainous regions of the Greek peninsula. Source: Internet

Ibrahim landed in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and had immediate success: by the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Missolonghi —put under siege by the Turks since April 1825—fell in April 1826. Source: Internet

Firstly, the Albanians had been living in southern Greece, as far south as the Peloponnese, in considerable numbers. Source: Internet

Hence they once more removed and came to Dryopis; and from Dryopis having entered the Peloponnese in this way, they became known as Dorians. Source: Internet

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