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TRIPOLITSA

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 292 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRIPOLITSA  , officially Tripolis, a

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town of
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Greece,
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capital of the nomarchy of
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Arcadia, and the seat of an
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archbishop, situated in a
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plain over 2,000 ft. above
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sea-level, 22 M . S.W. of
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Argos . The name has reference to the three
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ancient cities of
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Mantineia, Pallantium and
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Tegea, of which Tripolitsa is the
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modern representative . It does not stand on any ancient site . Before the
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war of
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independence it was the capital of the Morea and the seat of a
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pasha, with about 20,000 inhabitants; but in 1821 it was taken and sacked by the insurgents, and in 1825 its ruin was completed by
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Ibrahim Pasha . The town has since been rebuilt, and contains 10,789 inhabitants (1907) .

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