Peloponnese

Their armies were forming a defensive line at the Isthmus of Corinth, gateway to the Peloponnese, that is, about forty miles to the southwest of Athens.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Their armies were forming a defensive line at the Isthmus of Corinth, gateway to the Peloponnese, that is, about forty miles to the southwest of Athens.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

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The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

Was it not Eubulus who proposed the decree, while the ambassador to the Peloponnese was the defendant Aeschines?

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

The Peloponnese is a large peninsula and region in southern Greece.

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He also received reports of King Agis and the Spartans launching a new revolt in the Peloponnese and on Crete.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Antipater, ruling in his name in Macedonia, had sent an additional force of mercenaries and Thracian cavalry to meet him on his return from Siwa, but this was fewer than a thousand men, an indication that affairs in Greece were unsettled, especially with King Agis of Sparta still causing trouble from his base in the Peloponnese.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

At the same time he sent Cleander, brother of Coenus, to the Peloponnese in southern Greece to recruit mercenaries from the neighbors of Sparta.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

When the flame arrives, from Olympia in the Peloponnese where the first ancient Games was held, it will begin a 70-day journey around England, Wales, Northern Island, Scotland and outlying islands.

Olympic flame to travel to London by trains, boats and planes 2011

It all amounts to evidence in support of the belief that, back in 2004, the International Olympic Committee missed the opportunity to award its tournament to Greece on a permanent basis, on a site specially constructed in the Peloponnese, adjacent to the venue of the ancient Games.

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