Peloponnese
Peloponnese(see map: Greece and the Aegean world) the large peninsula of southern mainland Greece, joined to Attica and Boeotia by the Isthmus of Corinth, a mountainous area of complex topography. All the north is highland, from the lower chains of the Argolic peninsula westwards successively through Cyllene (Ziria), Chelmos, Panachaicum, and to the south Erymanthus and Maenale towards the centre of the Peloponnese: all with extensive areas above 1,500 m. Three chains run southwards from this mass, the lowest to the west beginning with Lykaion and running through Ithome to form the Messenian peninsula; Taygetus in the centre, with the highest summit of the Peloponnese (2,409 m.), forming the peninsula now called the Mani, running to Cape Taenarum (Matapan); and Parnon to the east, running to Cape Malea. The (mainly limestone) mountains are agriculturally unproductive, being densely wooded, and used for...
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