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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 (" See also:Island of See also:Pelops ") , the See also:ancient and See also:modern See also:Greek See also:official name for the See also:part of See also:Greece See also:south of the See also:Isthmus of See also:Corinth. In See also:medieval times it was called the Morea,from its resemblance to a mulberry-See also:leaf in shape, and this name is still current in popular speech.

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