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The Peloponnese now became the core of the Morea Eyalet, headed by the Mora valesi, who until 1780 was a pasha of the first rank (with three horsetails) and held the title of vizier. After 1780 and until the Greek War of Independence, the province was headed by a muhassil.
This new administrative area, under the governorship of a proconsul, consisted of an area which incorporated the Peloponnese, Attica, Boeotia, Aetolia, Thessaly and part of Epirus" (Book of Acts in its Graeco-Roman Setting, Chapter 12).
Jun 21, 2024 · Peloponnese, peninsula of 8,278 square miles (21,439 square km), a large, mountainous body of land jutting southward into the Mediterranean that since antiquity has been a major region of Greece, joined to the rest of mainland Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth.
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The citadel of the Acrocorinthus rises precipitously above the old city and commands the land route into the Peloponnese, a circumstance that gave Corinth great strategic and commercial importance in ancient times.
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Jan 7, 2016 · Inhabited since prehistoric times, the name Peloponnese (in Greek Peloponessos, a term first used in the Archaic period) means 'island of Pelops' and derives from the mythical king Pelops who was thought to have unified the region.
- Mark Cartwright
May 8, 2024 · On an epic, sun-soaked journey across southern Greece, Antonia Quirke revels in the history and myths that swirl around the rugged shores of the Peloponnese.
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The Peloponnese. Situated in the southern expanse of Greece, the Peloponnese peninsula derives its name from the legendary figure Pelops, a mythical king of Elis, rather than Ilida as commonly misconceived.
