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Corinth (/ ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth; Greek: Κόρινθος, romanized: Kórinthos, Modern Greek pronunciation: [ˈkorinθos]) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.The successor to the ancient city of Corinth, it is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece.
The League of Corinth, also referred to as the Hellenic League (Greek: κοινὸν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, koinòn tõn Hellḗnōn; [a] or simply οἱ Ἕλληνες, the Héllēnes), [3] was a federation of Greek states created by Philip II [4] in 338–337 BC.
The Greek philosopher and Roman senator Herodes Atticus is known to have considered digging a canal in the 2nd century AD, but did not get a project under way. [11] The Venetians also considered it in 1687 after their conquest of the Peloponnese but likewise did not initiate any work on the ground. [12]
Corinth (British English: / ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth, American English: / ˈ k ɔːr ɪ n θ /; Ancient Greek: Κόρινθος Korinthos; Doric Greek: Ϙόρινθος; Latin: Corinthus) was a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese peninsula to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.
Other hypotheses include: steeply dipping faults abut at a low-angle seismically active detachment, [11] or they undergo a progressive down-dip curvature and merge into low-angle detachments. [1] The seismic activity of the Corinth rift is monitored by the Corinth Rift Laboratory, [ 12 ] an international observatory belonging the European Plate ...
Clusters of Black Corinth are small, averaging 6.3 oz (180 g) and ranging from 3.2 to 9.5 oz (91 to 269 g). They are cylindrical, with prominent shoulder or winged. The berries are very small 0.012–0.021 oz (0.34–0.60 g), round, and of a reddish black color. The skin is very thin, and the flesh is juicy and soft.
The other two being what is called the Second Epistle to the Corinthians and a "tearful, severe" letter mentioned in 2 Corinthians 2:3–4. [26] The book called the Third Epistle to the Corinthians is generally not believed by scholars to have been written by Paul, as the text claims.
His right encountered a stubborn resistance at about 11 a.m. from Battery Robinett, a redan protected by a five-foot ditch, sporting three 20-pounder Parrott rifles commanded by Lt. Henry Robinett. Fierce hand-to-hand combat ensued, and Maury was forced to retire with heavy losses from arguably the hottest action of the two-day battle.