This southern Greek peninsula was once called Morea, or "mulberry", for its mulberry-leaf shape
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Commonwealth of Marathon  Don't worry about missing stuff, it's OK! ... GEOGRAPHYThis southern Greek peninsula was once called Morea, or "Mulberry", for its mulberry-leaf shape$2500ON THE MAPName two of the three countries classified as extending across two...
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Morea - Wikipedia  The Morea was the name of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece during the Middle ... The British Byzantinist Steven Runciman suggested that the name comes "from the likeness of its shape to that of a mulberry leaf."...
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Greece by on Prezi  Greece is a country located in southern Europe on the southern end of the Balkan ... Delphi was once revered by the ancient Greeks as the center of the earth. ... leaf, Peloponnese was traditionally called Morea, which means mulberry leaf. ... of both Europe and Greece, Peloponnese is a wide peninsula connected to the...
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Orientation - Peloponnesians  The Peloponnesos is a large peninsula linked to the Greek mainland by the ... Its name means "Island of Pelops" (progenitor of the Atreids, of whom ... In medieval times it was known as "the Morea" (mulberry tree), either because the peninsula's shape vaguely resembles a mulberry leaf or because it was once the center of...
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Peloponnese - Wikipedia  The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (/plpniss/; Greek: , Pelopnnsos, is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece. ... Its modern name derives from ancient Greek mythology, specifically the legend of .... the mulberry tree (morea), whose leaves are similar in shape to the peninsula.
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Greece facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  The climate in southern Greece and on the islands is Mediterranean, with hot, dry .... The Greeks also object to use of the term Macedonian by the Slavic ... The new Athens airport at Spata opened March 2001. ..... During the late 1950s and 1960s, the government took steps to reclaim land, ...... Passage, Customs and Duties.
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Iberian Peninsula | peninsula, Europe | Britannica.com
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Behind the Name: Ancient Greek Names  Arcadia was a region in Greece, its name deriving from  (arktos) "bear". ... Means "golden flower" from Greek  (chryseos) "golden" combined with...
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Jeopary Questions page 1926 - EUROPEAN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  ISLANDS: Because of its triangular shape, the ancients called this island off Italy's southwestern coast Trinacria  NUTRITION: When made up of healthy foods,...
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Ionian Islands | islands, Greece | Britannica.com  Ionian Islands, Modern Greek Inia Nisi, island group off the west coast of Greece, stretching ... (Modern Greek: Pelopnnisos), and often called Heptanesos (Seven Islands). ... Because of their strategic maritime location between the Greek and Italian ... Of the six main islands, Corfu (Modern Greek: Krkyra), opposite the...
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The Tree Goddess: Valentine Mythology  anewscafe.com  Feb 11, 2010 ... Trees have played a prominent role in mythology when it comes to love, ... place, the Tomb of Ninus, under a tall mulberry tree full of white berries. ... Mulberry trees continue to produce deep red fruit, a memorial of the two lovers. ... Thank-you for sharing these stories that connect us so vividly with these...
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Venus de Milo: Greek Statue by Alexandros of Antioch  One of the most famous examples of sculpture from Ancient Greece, the Venus ... since its discovery, in 1820, on the small Greek island of Melos in the Aegean. ... Another Hellenistic Greek marble statue of Aphrodite (1st century BCE), called ... The Venus de Milo was unearthed on the Greek island of Melos (Milos), one of...
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Youth Time magazine - A Trip To Trinacria: Welcome To Sicily!  Dec 29, 2015 ... In ancient times the name of Sicily was Triquetra or Trinacria. ... Homer, in his Odyssey, alluding to the island's triangular shape and the Trinacria. ... have represented the three Sicilian promontories: Capo Lilibeo near Marsala, ... But also the coast south-west, between the Arabian Mazara del Vallo and...
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Iberian Peninsula - Wikipedia  The Iberian Peninsula /abrin pnnsjl/, also known as Iberia /abri/, ... According to Charles Ebel, the ancient sources in both Latin and Greek use ..... The submarine topography of the coastal waters of the Iberian Peninsula has ... However, most of Portugal and Spain have a mediterranean climate with...
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La Bedda Sicilia - Coniglio  Jan 11, 2016 ... Because of its obvious shape, the ancient Greeks gave it the name Trinakrias (Triangle). ... and the later Italians called it Trinacria as well as by its ancient and present ... Sicilia is a mountainous triangular island in the southern ... a culture on the southwest coast and the central interior of the island, and...
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The Venus of Milo (Illustrated). - OpenSIUC  MELOS (Italian Milo), one ofthe smallest Greek islands, would ... covery has been known as the A'enus of Milo. ... broke up. and the friendly relations between Melos and her metro- polis ... May, but found that the statue had been sold in the meantime to a ... whose left hand was raised and held an apple, and the right sup-.
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jeopardy/265_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ROSES | This Greek island was named for either the roses or the snakes that proliferated there in ancient times | Rhodes. right: Jan. Wrong: Value: $600.
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Jeopary Questions page 1926 - EUROPEAN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  ISLANDS: Because of its triangular shape, the ancients called this island off Italy's southwestern coast .... "EN" THE BEGINNING: In Greek myth, Selene put this handsome youth to sleep forever because she couldn't bear to have him die...
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Greek nationalism, the "Megale Idea" and Venizelism to 1923  Jan 7, 1997 ... As noted in Lecture 13, some themes and trends in Balkan history are easier to ... state as a homeland for all the Greeks of the Mediterranean and Balkan world. ... Rhigas envisaged a large country occupying both the Balkans and ... His rival, Theodoros Deliyannis (five times prime minister between 1885...
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Olea europaea - Wikipedia  The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "european olive", is a ... The olive's fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the .... Olive oil was used to anoint kings and athletes in ancient Greece. .... An olive tree called Farga d'Ari in Ulldecona, Catalonia, Spain, has been dated...
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10 Mythological Origin Stories About Fruit - Listverse  Jan 29, 2014 ... Go Home .... According to the legend of Babylonian lovers Pyramus and Thisbe, mulberries ... His blood stained the white berries of the mulberry tree, and when ... and the Elderberry Bush were arguing over who got to bear children first. ... Fig trees thrived in the fertile lands around Attica and Athens; here,...