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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.
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 ...
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 .
At the beginning of 1948,DSE controlled all of Peloponnese's main mountain ranges including Taygetus, Parnon and Mainalo. While DSE held most of the mountainous Kalavryta province, its capital of the same name remained in government hands. [5] Kalavryta held a strategic position in the triangle of Patras, Tripoli and the peninsula's northern ...
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).
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.
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]
Skiritida (Greek: Σκιρίτιδα, before 2001: Σκυρίτιδα - Skyritida) [2] is a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece.It was formed at the 1997 Kapodistrias reform; the seat of the municipality was in Vlachokerasia. [2]