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Peloponnese Arkadia Argolida Ilia Messinia |
 The
Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Greek: Πελοπόννησος
Peloponnesos; see also List of Greek place
names) is a large peninsula in southern Greece,
forming the part of the country south of the
Gulf of Corinth. The peninsula is divided among
two distinct peripheries of Greece, the
Peloponnese and the West Greece peripheriesThe
Peloponnese covers an area of some 21,549 km˛
(8,320 square miles), and constitutes the
southernmost part of mainland Greece. While
technically it might be considered an island
since the construction of the Corinth Canal in
1893, like other peninsulas that have been
separated from their mainland by man-made bodies
of waters, it is rarely, if ever referred to as
an "island". It has two land connections with
the rest of Greece, a natural one at the Isthmus
of Corinth
(in the photo) and an artificial one in the shape of
the Rio-Antirio bridge (completed 2004).The peninsula has a mountainous interior and deeply indented coasts, with Mount Taygetus its highest point. It possesses four south-pointing peninsulas, Messenia, the Mani Peninsula, Cape Malea (also known as Epidaurus Limera), and the Argolid in the far northeast of the Peloponnese. Two groups of islands lie off the Peloponnesan coast: the Argo-Saronic Islands to the east, and the Ionian Islands to the west. The island of Kythira, off the Epidaurus Limera peninsula to the south of the Peloponnese, is considered to be part of the Ionian Islands. |
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