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PELOPONNESUS (" Island of Pelops ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PELOPONNESUS ("
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Island of
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Pelops ")  , the
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ancient and
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modern
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Greek
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official name for the
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part of
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Greece
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south of the
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Isthmus of
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Corinth . In
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medieval times it was called the Morea,from its resemblance to a mulberry-
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leaf in shape, and this name is still current in popular speech .

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