Peloponnese
Peloponnese is a peninsula in southern Greece. Once a peninsula connected to the rest of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth, it is now cut off from the mainland by the narrow Corinth Canal, spanned by bridges connecting Peloponnese to Attica across the canal.
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Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.Laconia
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Achaea or Achaia, sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia, is one of the regional units of Greece. Photo: Koppi2, GFDL.Corinthia
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- Type: Region
- Description: large peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece
- Categories: peninsula and geographic region
- Location: Greece, Balkans, Europe
Latitude of center 37.5° or 37° 30' north | Longitude of center 22.3333° or 22° 20' east |
Population 1,160,000 | Elevation 917 metres (3009 feet) |
GeoNames ID 255620 |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Peloponnese
- Afrikaans: Peloponnesos
- Albanian: Peloponezi
- Arabic: Peloponeso
- Arabic: بيلوبونيز
- Aragonese: Peloponiso
- Armenian: Պելոպոնես
- Asturian: Peloponesu
- Azerbaijani: Peloponnes
- Basque: Morea
- Basque: Peloponeso
- Belarusian: Паўвостраў Пелапанес
- Belarusian: Пелапанес
- Belarusian: Пэляпанэс
- Bengali: পেলোপনেস
- Bosnian: Peloponez
- Breton: Peloponnesos
- Breton: Peloponnez
- Bulgarian: Пелопонес
- Catalan: Morea
- Catalan: Peloponnès
- Catalan: Peloponès
- Catalan: Peloponés
- Catalan: Península del Peloponès
- Cebuano: Peloponnese
- Chinese: Pelopónnisos
- Chinese: 伯罗奔尼撒
- Chinese: 伯罗奔尼撒半岛
- Chinese: 伯羅奔尼撒
- Chinese: 伯羅奔尼撒半島
- Chinese: 伯羅奔尼薩斯半島
- Chinese: 伯羅邦尼斯
- Croatian: Peloponez
- Czech: Peloponnés
- Czech: Peloponnésos
- Czech: Peloponés
- Czech: Peloponéský poloostrov
- Danish: Peloponnes
- Danish: Peloponnesien
- Danish: Peloponnesos
- Dutch: Peleponesos
- Dutch: Peloponnesisch schiereiland
- Dutch: Peloponnesos
- Dutch: Peloponnesus
- English: Peloponnesus
- Esperanto: Peloponeso
- Esperanto: Peloponezo
- Estonian: Peloponnesos
- Estonian: Peloponnesose poolsaar
- Faroese: Peloponnes
- Finnish: Morea
- Finnish: Peloponnesos
- French: Morée
- French: Pelloponèse
- French: Peloponnese
- French: Péloponnèse
- French: Péloponèse
- French: Pélopponèse
- Galician: Peloponeso
- Georgian: პელოპონესის ნახევარკუნძული
- German: Peloponnes
- German: Peloponnisos
- Greek: Μοριάς
- Greek: Μωρέας
- Greek: Μωριάς
- Greek: Πελοπόννησος
- Hebrew: הפלופונס
- Hebrew: חצי האי הפלופונסי
- Hebrew: חצי האי הפלפונזי
- Hebrew: פלופונז
- Hebrew: פלופונס
- Hebrew: פלופונסוס
- Hindi: पेलोपोनीज
- Hindi: पेलोपोनीज़
- Hindi: पेलोपोन्नेस
- Hungarian: Peloponnészosz
- Icelandic: Pelópsskagi
- Indonesian: Peloponesus
- Indonesian: Peloponnesia
- Indonesian: Peloponnesos
- Indonesian: Peloponnesus
- Indonesian: Peloppnesos
- Irish: An Pheilipinéis
- Irish: Peilipinéiseach
- Italian: Morea
- Italian: Peloponneso
- Italian: Penisola del Peloponneso
- Japanese: ペロポニソス半島
- Japanese: ペロポネソス半島
- Japanese: ペロポネーソス
- Japanese: ペロポネーソス半島
- Japanese: ペロポンネソス
- Japanese: ペロポンネソス半島
- Japanese: モレア
- Kirghiz: Пелопоннес
- Korean: 펠로폰네소스
- Korean: 펠로폰네소스반도
- Korean: 펠로폰니소스
- Korean: 펠로폰니소스 반도
- Kurdish: Pelopones
- Latin: Peloponnesus
- Latvian: Peloponesa
- Latvian: Peloponēsa
- Lithuanian: Peloponesas
- Lombard: Pelopunes
- Lombard: Pelopunés
- Lombard: Pelupunes
- Low German: Morea
- Low German: Peloponnes
- Luxembourgish: Peloponnes
- Macedonian: Пелопонез
- Malay: Peloponnesos
- Min Nan Chinese: Pelopónnisos
- Norwegian: Peloponnes
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peleponnes
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peloponnes
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peloponnese
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peloponneser
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peloponnesos
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peloponnesus
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Peloponnes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Peloponnese
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Peloponnesos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Peloponnesus
- Occitan (post 1500): Peloponès
- Occitan (post 1500): Peloponés
- Persian: پلوپونز
- Persian: پلیوپونیز
- Persian: پلیپونز
- Polish: Morea
- Polish: Peloponez
- Polish: Półwysep Peloponeski
- Portuguese: Peloponeso
- Portuguese: Península do Peloponeso
- Romanian: Pelopones
- Romanian: Peloponesia
- Romanian: Peloponez
- Romanian: Peloponezia
- Romanian: Peloponnesos
- Romanian: Peloponnessus
- Romanian: Peloponnesus
- Russian: Пелопоннес
- Rusyn: Пелопонез
- Scots: Peloponnese
- Serbian: Пелепонез
- Serbian: Пелопонез
- Serbian: Пелопонеско полуострво
- Serbo-Croatian: Peloponez
- Sicilian: Peloponneso
- Sicilian: Peloponnesu
- Sicilian: Peloponnèsu
- Sicilian: Pelupullèsu
- Sicilian: Pelupunnesu
- Sicilian: Pilupunnesu
- Slovak: Peloponéz
- Slovenian: Peloponez
- Spanish: Morea
- Spanish: Peloponense
- Spanish: Peloponenses
- Spanish: Peloponesia
- Spanish: Peloponesiaca
- Spanish: Peloponesiacas
- Spanish: Peloponesiaco
- Spanish: Peloponesiacos
- Spanish: Peloponesias
- Spanish: Peloponesio
- Spanish: Peloponesios
- Spanish: Peloponeso
- Spanish: Peloponesíaca
- Spanish: Peloponesíacas
- Spanish: Peloponesíaco
- Spanish: Peloponesíacos
- Spanish: Peninsula del Peloponeso
- Spanish: Península del Peloponeso
- Swahili: Peloponesi
- Swedish: Morea
- Swedish: Peleponnesos
- Swedish: Peloponessos
- Swedish: Peloponnesiska halvön
- Swedish: Peloponnesos
- Swedish: Peloponnesus
- Swedish: Pelopponnesos
- Swedish: Pelopponnesus
- Swiss German: Peloponnes
- Thai: Pelopones
- Thai: Peloponese
- Thai: Peloponessus
- Thai: Peloponnese
- Thai: Peloponnesia
- Thai: Peloponnesian
- Thai: Peloponnesos
- Thai: Peloponnesus
- Thai: Peloponnisos
- Thai: คาบสมุทรเพโลพอนนีส
- Thai: คาบสมุทรเพโลโพนีส
- Thai: ชาวเพโลพอนเนเซีย
- Thai: เพโลพอนนีส
- Thai: เพโลพอนเนซอส
- Thai: เพโลพอนเนซัส
- Thai: เพโลพอนเนเซีย
- Tosk Albanian: Peloponnes
- Turkish: Mora
- Turkish: Mora Yarımadası
- Turkish: Peleponnes
- Turkish: Peleponnesos
- Turkish: Peloponnesia
- Turkish: Peloponnesos
- Turkish: Peloponnesus
- Turkish: Peloponnez yarımadası
- Ukrainian: Пелопоннес
- Ukrainian: Пелопоннеський півострів
- Urdu: Peloponnesus
- Urdu: الموریا
- Urdu: لاموریہ
- Urdu: مورہ
- Urdu: موریا
- Urdu: موریہ
- Urdu: پیلوپونیسس
- Uzbek: Peloponnes
- Venetian: Morea
- Venetian: Peloponeso
- Venetian: Pełoponexo
- Vietnamese: Peloponnese
- Vietnamese: Peloponnesos
- Vietnamese: Peloponnesus
- Waray (Philippines): Peloponeso
- Welsh: Peloponnese
- Welsh: Peloponnesos
- Welsh: Peloponnesus
- Western Frisian: Peloponnesos
- Western Panjabi: پیلوپونیز
- Wu Chinese: 伯罗奔尼撒
- Yue Chinese: 伯羅邦尼斯
- Island of Pelops
- Peloponése
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