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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. In European Renaissance arts, Arcadia was celebrated as an unspoiled, harmonious wilderness; as such, it was referenced in ...
Arcadia is a rural, mountainous regional unit comprising about 18% of the land area of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is the peninsula's largest regional unit. According to the 2021 census, it has about 77,551 inhabitants; its capital, Tripoli, has about 30,500 residents in the city proper, and about 45,000 total in the greater metropolitan area ...
The northern border with Arcadia then ran amongst the foothills of Taygetos, but all the headwater of the Alpheios river lay outside Messenia. The eastern border with Laconia ran along the Taygetos ridge up to the Koskaraka river, and then along that river to the sea, near the city of Abia. There is a modern regional unit of Greece of the same ...
Vehicle registration. TP. Megalopoli ( Greek: Μεγαλόπολη) is a town in the southwestern part of the regional unit of Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located in the same site as ancient Megalopolis ( Ancient Greek: Μεγαλόπολις, literally large/great city ). When it was founded in 371 BC, it was the first large urbanization ...
Welcome to the Greece portal. Greece / ˈɡriːs / ⓘ ( Greek: Ελλάδα, Ellada ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Elliniki Dimokratia ), and historically Hellas ( Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellas; Modern Greek: Ελλάς, Ellas ), is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of ...
Greece. The Arcadian League ( Ancient Greek: Κοινὸν τῶν Ἀρκάδων) was a league of city-states in ancient Greece. It combined the various cities of Arcadia, in the Peloponnese, into a single state. The league was founded in 370 BC, taking advantage of the decreased power of Sparta, which had previously dominated and controlled ...
Orchomenus or Orchomenos ( Greek: Ὀρχομενός) was an ancient city of Arcadia, Greece, called by Thucydides (v. 61) the Arcadian Orchomenus ( Ὀρχομενός ὁ Ἀρκαδικός ), to distinguish it from the Boeotian town . Originating as a prehistoric settlement, Orchomenus became one of the powerful cities in West Arcadia ...
Paradeisia ( Greek: Παραδείσια, before 1924: Κούρταγα - Kourtaga [2]) is a village and a community in Arcadia, Greece, and a part of the municipality of Megalopoli. The community consists of the villages Paradeisia and Fanaiti. Paradeisia is 4 km east of Chranoi, 4 km west of Veligosti, 4 km north of Chirades and 11 km ...