Proper noun
Taygetos
A mountain range in the prefectures of Laconia, Messenia and Arcadia on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.
It is commonly stated that if they considered it "puny and deformed", the baby was thrown into a chasm on Mount Taygetos known euphemistically as the Apothetae (Gr., ἀποθέται, "Deposits"). Source: Internet
The immediate area around the town of Sparta, the plateau east of the Taygetos mountains, was generally referred as Laconice ( Λακωνική main). Source: Internet