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Peloponnesian Peninsula

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Noun1.Peloponnesian Peninsula - the southern peninsula of GreecePeloponnesian Peninsula - the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC
Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
Sparta - an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess; the dominant city of the Peloponnesus prior to the 4th century BC
Olympia - a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games


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As Sparta conquered other peoples living on the Peloponnesian peninsula, it made many of them slaves, called helots.
The official Athenian justification was that such interposition prevented wider war from spreading to the whole of the Peloponnesian peninsula and bringing terror to Athens' citizens.
She lived in the Peloponnesian peninsula, in the deep south of Greece.
 
 
 
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