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Southern Peloponnese Free FREE SOUTHERN PELOPONNESE PDF Michael Cullen | 136 pages | 15 Mar 2015 | Sunflower Books | 9781856914512 | English | London, United Kingdom What to see in southern Peloponnese? - Peloponnese Forum - Tripadvisor It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridge which separates the Gulf of Corinth from the Saronic Gulf. The peninsula is divided among three administrative regions : most belongs to the Peloponnese region, with smaller parts belonging to the West Greece and Attica regions. The Peloponnese is a peninsula that covers an area of some 21, It is connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of CorinthSouthern Peloponnese the Corinth Canal was constructed in However, it is also connected to the mainland by several bridges across the canal, including two submersible bridges at the north and the south Southern Peloponnese. Near the northern tip of the peninsula, there is another bridge, the Rio—Antirrio bridge completed Indeed, the Southern Peloponnese is rarely, if ever, referred to as an island. The peninsula has a mountainous interior and deeply indented coasts. The Peloponnese possesses four south-pointing peninsulas, the Messenianthe Manithe Cape Malea also known as Epidaurus Limeraand the Southern Peloponnese in the far northeast of the Peloponnese. The entire peninsula is earthquake prone and has been the site of many earthquakes in the past. Extensive lowlands are found only in the west, except for the Evrotas valley in the south and the Argolid in the northeast. Southern Peloponnese Peloponnese is home to numerous spectacular beaches, which are a major tourist draw. Two groups of islands lie off the Peloponnesian coast: the Argo-Saronic Islands to the east, and the Ionian to the west. The island of Kythiraoff the Epidaurus Limeira peninsula to the south of the Peloponnese, is considered to be part of the Ionian Southern Peloponnese. The island of Elafonisos used to be part of the peninsula but was separated following the major quake of AD. Since antiquity, and continuing to the present day, the Peloponnese has been divided into Southern Peloponnese major regions: Achaea northCorinthia northeastArgolis eastArcadia centerLaconia southeastMessenia southwestand Elis west. Each of these regions is headed by a city. The largest city is Patras pop. The Southern Peloponnese has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Its modern name derives from ancient Greek mythologyspecifically the legend of the hero Pelopswho was said to have conquered the entire region. The name Peloponnesos means "Island of Pelops". The Mycenaean civilizationmainland Greece's and Southern Peloponnese first major civilization, dominated the Peloponnese in the Bronze Age Southern Peloponnese its stronghold at Mycenae in Southern Peloponnese north-east of the peninsula. The Mycenaean civilization collapsed suddenly at the end of the 2nd millennium BC. Archeological research has found that many of its cities Southern Peloponnese palaces show signs of destruction. The subsequent period, known as the Greek Dark Agesis marked by an absence of written records. In BC, the first Olympic Games were held at Olympiain the western Peloponnese and this date is sometimes used to denote the beginning of the classical period of Greek antiquity. During classical antiquitythe Peloponnese was at the heart of the affairs of ancient Greece Southern Peloponnese, possessed some of its most powerful city-states, and was the location of some of its bloodiest battles. The major cities of SpartaCorinthArgos and Megalopolis were all located on the Peloponnese, and it was the Southern Peloponnese of the Peloponnesian League. Soldiers from the peninsula fought in the Persian Warsand it was also the scene of the Peloponnesian War of — BC. The entire Peloponnese with the notable exception of Sparta joined Alexander's expedition against the Persian Empire. Southern Peloponnese with the rest of Greece, the Peloponnese fell to the expanding Roman Republic in BC, when Southern Peloponnese Romans razed the city of Corinth and massacred its inhabitants. The Romans created Southern Peloponnese province of Achaea comprising the Peloponnese and central Greece. During the Roman periodthe peninsula remained prosperous but became a provincial backwater, relatively cut off from the affairs of the wider Roman world. The devastation of Alaric 's raid in — led to the construction of the Hexamilion wall across the Isthmus of Corinth. By the latter part of that century, however, building activity seems to have stopped virtually everywhere except Constantinople, Thessalonica, Corinth, and Southern Peloponnese. This has Southern Peloponnese been attributed to calamities such as plague, earthquakes and Slavic invasions. The scale of the Slavic incursions and settlement in the 7th and 8th centuries remains a matter Southern Peloponnese dispute, although it is nowadays considered much smaller than previously thought. Fewer Slavic toponyms appear on the eastern coast, which remained in Byzantine Southern Peloponnese and was included in the thema of Hellasestablished by Justinian II c. Relations between the Slavs and Greeks were probably peaceful apart from intermittent uprisings. This is especially true in Mani and Tsakoniawhere Slavic incursions Southern Peloponnese minimal, or non-existent. Being agriculturalists, the Slavs probably traded with the Greeks, who remained in the towns, while Greek villages continued to exist in the interior, governing themselves, possibly paying tribute to the Slavs. From the mid-9th century, following a Slavic revolt and attack on PatrasSouthern Peloponnese determined Hellenization process was carried out. According to the Chronicle of Monemvasiain the Byzantine governor of Corinth went to war with the Slavs, exterminated them, and allowed the original inhabitants to claim their lands. They regained control of the city of Patras Southern Peloponnese the region was re-settled with Greeks. By the turn of the Southern Peloponnese century, the entire Peloponnese was formed into the new thema of Peloponnesoswith its capital at Corinth. The imposition of Byzantine rule over the Slavic enclaves may have largely been a process of Christianization and accommodating Slavic chieftains into the Imperial fold, as literary, epigraphic and sigillographic evidence testify to Slavic archontes participating in Imperial affairs. Although they were Southern Peloponnese remain relatively autonomous until Ottoman times, such tribes were the exception rather than the rule. The success of the Hellenization campaign also shows that the Southern Peloponnese had settled among many Greeks, in contrast to Southern Peloponnese further north in what is now Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia, as those areas could not be Southern Peloponnese when they were recovered by the Byzantines in the early Southern Peloponnese century. Apart from the troubled relations with the Slavs, the coastal regions of the Peloponnese suffered greatly from repeated Arab raids Southern Peloponnese the Arab capture of Crete in the s and the establishment of a corsair emirate there. Infollowing the destruction of the Byzantine Empire by the forces of the Fourth Crusadethe Crusaders under William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin marched Southern Peloponnese through mainland Greece and conquered the Peloponnese against sporadic local Greek resistance. The Franks then founded the Principality of Achaeanominally a vassal of the Latin Empirewhile the Venetians occupied several strategically important ports around the coast such as Navarino and Coronwhich they retained into the 15th century. Its etymology is disputed, but it is most commonly held to be derived from the mulberry tree moreawhose leaves are similar in shape to the peninsula. Frankish supremacy in the peninsula, Southern Peloponnese, received a critical blow after the Battle of Pelagoniawhen William II of Villehardouin was forced to cede the newly constructed fortress and palace at Mystras near ancient Sparta to a resurgent Byzantium. This Greek province and later a semi-autonomous Despotate staged a gradual reconquest, eventually conquering the Frankish principality by The Ottoman Turks began raiding the Peloponnese from Southern Peloponnese. Exploiting the quarrels between Byzantines and Franks, he plundered across the peninsula and forced both the Byzantine despots and the remaining Frankish rulers to acknowledge Ottoman suzerainty and pay tribute. This situation lasted until the Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Ankara inafter which Ottoman power was for a time checked. Ottoman incursions into the Morea Southern Peloponnese under Turahan Bey after Despite the reconstruction of the Hexamilion wall at the Isthmus of Corinth, the Ottomans under Murad II breached it inforcing the Despots of the Southern Peloponnese to re-acknowledge Ottoman suzerainty, and again under Turahan in Southern Peloponnese Following the Southern Peloponnese of the Southern Peloponnese of Athens inthe Ottomans occupied a third of the Peloponnese inand Southern Peloponnese Mehmed II extinguished the remnants of the Despotate in The last Byzantine stronghold, Salmeniko Castle Southern Peloponnese, under its commander Graitzas Palaiologosheld out until July The Venetian fortresses were conquered in a series of Ottoman-Venetian Wars : the first warlasting from tosaw much fighting in the Peloponnese, resulting in the loss of Argoswhile Modon and Coron fell in during the second war. Coron and Patras were captured Southern Peloponnese a crusading Southern
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