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The Taygetus, Taugetus, Taygetos or Taÿgetus (Greek: Ταΰγετος, romanized: Taygetos) is a mountain range on the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece. The highest mountain of the range is Mount Taygetus, also known as "Profitis Ilias", or "Prophet Elias" . The name is one of the oldest recorded in Europe, appearing in the Odyssey. [2]
Zavitsa (Greek: Ζάβιτσα) is a mountain in the Peloponnese, known in antiquity as Timenion Oros, meaning Timenion mountain.. Its contemporary name comes from slavic language, either from the word "zaviča", which translates to "the village", or "zavičaj" which means "homeland".
Cyllene (or Kyllene) herself was a mountain nymph (an Oread) who had taken for her consort Pelasges in the most ancient times recounted by Greek mythographers. There was a port in Elis in antiquity named Cyllene near the mouth of the Alfeios, where the traveler Pausanias noted the image of Hermes, "most devoutly worshiped by the inhabitants, is merely the male member upright on the pedestal."
Aroania (Greek: Αροάνια), also known as Helmos or Chelmos (Χελμός, from South Slavic chlmo, "summit" [2]), is a mountain in Achaea, Peloponnese, Greece. At 2,355 m elevation, Aroania is the third highest mountain of the Peloponnese, after Taygetus and Kyllini, and the highest in Achaea. [1] The largest town near the mountain is ...
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The mountain's highest point, known as both Profitis Ilias and Ostrakina, [1] [3] at a height of 1,981 m (6,499 ft), [1] is the highest point in Arcadia. [4] The mountain has a length of 15 to 20 kilometres (9.3 to 12.4 mi) from southwest of Tripoli to northeast of Vytina , and a width of 5 to 10 kilometres (3.1 to 6.2 mi) from Zygovisti to ...
Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski once again answered a question at his Wednesday news conference about quarterback Deshaun Watson being benched as the organization continues to defend ...