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Arcadia (Greek: Ἀρκαδία, romanized: Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas , and in Greek mythology it was the home of the gods Hermes and Pan .
Arcadia (Greek: Αρκαδία, romanized: Arkadía Modern Greek: [ɐr.kɐˈði.ɐ]) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese . It is in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.
Tripoli was renamed and rebuilt and was developed as one of the main cities of the Kingdom of Greece, serving as the capital of the Arcadia district. During the 19th and the 20th centuries the city emerged to be the administrative, economic, commercial and transportation center of central and south Peloponnese. [16]
Arcadia is one of the regions described in the "catalogue of ships" in the Iliad. [13] Agamemnon himself gave Arcadia the ships for the Trojan war because Arcadia did not have a navy. There is a modern regional unit of Greece of the same name, which is more extensive than the ancient region.
Gortynia (Greek: Γορτυνία) is a municipality in the Arcadia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Dimitsana. [2] The municipality has an area of 1,050.882 km 2. [3]
Stemnitsa is a traditional settlement and is considered one of the most beautiful villages in Arcadia, due to its picturesque location and its historical churches and mansions. [2] It is situated at the western edge of the Mainalo mountains, above the left bank of the river Lousios , at about 1050 m elevation.
Tegea (/ ˈ t iː dʒ i ə /; Greek: Τεγέα) was a settlement in ancient Arcadia, and it is also a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the Tripoli municipality, of which it is a municipal unit [2] with an area of 118.350 km 2. [3]
List of settlements in Arcadia. ... List of towns and villages in Greece This page was last edited on 11 April 2022, at 01:09 (UTC). Text is available under the ...