Jan 03, 2022 · Inhabited since prehistoric times, the name Peloponnese (in Greek Peloponessos, a term first used in the Archaic period) means ‘island of Pelops’ and derives from the mythical king Pelops who was thought to have unified the region.

Dec 09, 2021 · Peloponnese, also spelled Peloponnesus, Modern Greek Pelopónnisos, peninsula of 8,278 square miles (21,439 square km), a large, mountainous body of land jutting southward into the Mediterranean that since antiquity has been a major region of Greece, joined to the rest of mainland Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth.

• PELOPONNESE (noun) Sense 1. Meaning: The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC. Classified under: Nouns denoting spatial position

The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos, or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula, located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. During the late Middle Ages and the Ottoman era, the peninsula was …