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Tripoli is a 1950 American adventure film directed by Will Price and written by Winston Miller.The film is a fictionalized account of the Battle of Derna at Derna, a coastal town in modern eastern Libya in April 1805 against Tripoli, one of the four Barbary states in North Africa and stars John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers, Lowell Gilmore and Connie ...
He was already 50 years old by this time, a fact which contributed to his sobriquet O Geros tou Morea or "The Elder of Morea," whereby Morea was another name describing the Peloponnese. Kolokotronis's first action was the defense of Valtetsi, the village near Tripoli where his army was mustering.
Piana is a member village of the municipality of Falanthos, which is a subdivision of the municipality of Tripoli since 2010. [2] It is very close to the other villages of Falanthos like Alonistaina , Chrysovitsi , Roeino , Davia , Zarakova , Mantaiika , Tselepakos and Silimna .
Turkish, Albanian, Greeks, and Jewish populations, who were identified with the Ottomans inhabiting the Peloponnese, suffered massacres, particularly where Greek forces were dominant. [1] Settled Greek communities in the Aegean Sea , Crete, Central and Southern Greece were wiped out, and settled Turkish, Albanian, Greeks , and smaller Jewish ...
The village's mediaeval name Bodia is thought to be derived from the Slavic word boda, [3] meaning "winter quarters" (usually for sheep). [4] ( The Peloponnese was invaded by Slavic nomads who ruled some areas from the seventh to ninth centuries CE; even after the restoration of Byzantine rule, some of these tribes retained their Slavic identity into Byzantine times).
To the Shores of Tripoli is a 1942 American Technicolor film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck . Its cinematography was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943.
Tripoli (Greek: Τρίπολη, romanized: Trípoli; Katharevousa: Τρίπολις, romanized: Trípolis) is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the Peloponnese region as well as of the regional unit of Arcadia .
Tyros (Greek: Τυρός, romanized: Tyrós, lit. 'cheese', Tsakonian: Τερέ) is a tourist and old naval town in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece.It is located 19 km north of Leonidio, 26 km southeast of Astros and 71 km southeast of Tripoli, lying in the heart of Kynouria, between the Parnon mountains and the Myrtoan Sea.