Central Greece is bordered on three sides by water; the Ionian Sea lies to its west, the Corinthian Gulf to its south, and the Aegean Sea to its east. Despite its long coastline, the region is very mountainous, with a number of peaks looming to over 2,000 meters. Many gleaming lakes ...
Alexander III or Alexander of Macedonia Born: 356bce,Pella,Macedonia[northwest of Thessaloníki, Greece] Died: June 13, 323bce,Babylon[near Al-Ḥillah, Iraq] Title / Office: king (336BC-323BC),Macedonia House / Dynasty: Argead dynasty ...
Laconia is a regional unit and historic region in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese, located in southern Greece.
Piraeus, city and dímos (municipality), Attica (Modern Greek: Attikí) periféreia (region), Greece. Piraeus is the port of Athens (Athína) and lies on Phaleron Bay, about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Athens by highway. The main harbour, Kántharos (an
Sparta, ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece. The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the
ancient Greece The period between the catastrophic end of the Mycenaean civilization and about 900bceis often called aDark Age. It was a time about which Greeks of the Classical age had confused and actually false notions.Thucydides, the great ancient historian of the 5th centurybce, wrote a ...
Peloponnese, peninsula of 8,278 square miles (21,439 square km), a large, mountainous body of land jutting southward into the Mediterranean that since antiquity has been a major region of Greece, joined to the rest of mainland Greece by the Isthmus of Co
(428–427) with Athenian reprisals. Thereafter, Lésbos was repeatedly attacked by the Peloponnesians, falling to Sparta in 405. In 389 Thrasybulus recovered most of the island for Athens; in 377 it joined the Second Athenian League but in 333 served as a base for the Persian admiral ...
Euboea, island, the largest in Greece, after Crete (Modern Greek: Kríti). It is located in the Central Greece (Stereá Elláda) periféreia (region), in the Aegean Sea. It lies along the coasts of the periféreies (regions) of Western Greece (Dytikí El
Thebes, dímos (municipality) and city, Central Greece (Modern Greek: Stereá Elláda) periféreia (region). The city lies northwest of Athens (Athína) and was one of the chief cities and powers of ancient Greece. On the acropolis of the ancient city st