Their armies were forming a defensive line at the Isthmus of Corinth, gateway to the Peloponnese, that is, about forty miles to the southwest of Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

Horsemen sped to Arcadia, Argos, and Elis, all in the distant Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander the Great] Reference

He lived with her in a windmill in the Peloponnese and then on her rambling estate in Moldova.    From Wordnik.com.  [So No More He'll Go A-Roving] Reference

He also received reports of King Agis and the Spartans launching a new revolt in the Peloponnese and on Crete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander the Great] Reference

I also yearn for the Mani region at the southernmost tip of the Peloponnese, where I spent only three or four days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is it possible | clusterflock] Reference

Will the Captain's family ever stop buying land or will they buy the rest of the Peloponnese and rule it like Nestor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece] Reference

Some of the protesters had walked from as far as Sparta, the historic town in the southern Peloponnese, to make their voices heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papandreou survives confidence vote on handling of Greece debt crisis] Reference

King Nestor was the ancient Greek fabled for his wisdom, his kindness, his banquets and a mighty palace on the Peloponnese peninsula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece] Reference

At the same time he sent Cleander, brother of Coenus, to the Peloponnese in southern Greece to recruit mercenaries from the neighbors of Sparta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander the Great] Reference

It's a 3 ½ -hour segment of a 22-cycle work intended to be shown over 80 hours in a unique, open-air site near the village of Lyssaria in the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Now, a Word From Programmers] Reference

He wrote the greatest of his books about Greece, "Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese" 1958, at the home of the painter Nikos Ghika on the island of Hydra.    From Wordnik.com.  [So No More He'll Go A-Roving] Reference

Motorways are being built to attract rich Athenians, the airport is being expanded and hopes raised that the Captain's vision could turn round the ailing Peloponnese economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece] Reference

Instead their travels in Greece led them into the isolated middle peninsula of the southern Peloponnese: the Mani, walled off from the rest of Greece by the Taygetus Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [So No More He'll Go A-Roving] Reference

He reigned in ancient Elis in the Peloponnese peninsula during the time of Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Furies] Reference

One developer, Spyros Tzoannos , said he had to accumulate some 2,000 government signatures for a complex of resorts in the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golf in Greece: a Byzantine ordeal] Reference

Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Kevin Andrews posing in the ruins of Mistras during his travels through the Peloponnese in the early 1950s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking to the Heart of Greece] Reference

Further reinforcements came from the Peloponnese known in that time as "the Morea", which fell to the Turks after 1500.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heir of Skanderbeg!] Reference

Discreetly covered whilst visiting Royalist strongholds in the southernmost Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tattoo | clusterflock] Reference

Taygetos in the southern Peloponnese will need 200 yrs to grow back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Fires Video View] Reference

“What about Sextus Pompeius, who now owns the Peloponnese and Cape Taenarum?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony and Cleopatra] Reference

Well, if you read Meeta's blog, you'd know that she'd been to Peloponnese recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

Mary Renault would pretend he's Greek, and we'd be headed across the Peloponnese in golden chain mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Did Wrong] Reference

Worst hit was the Peloponnese, where dozens of villages have been evacuated while others remain cut off by the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfires Kill 44 In Greece, Including 3 Firefighters] Reference

Greek newspapers are calling the southern Peloponnese region a "crematorium", says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

January 8th, 2006 at 12: 49 pm visit now says: preside attainments abstracting endemic anytime civilly Peloponnese adoptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Coulter on Murtha: He Longs “To See U.S. Troops Shot, Humiliated”] Reference

His domain was centered in the northeastern Peloponnese but it extended to the islands of the Aegean, perhaps as far east as Rhodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trojan War] Reference

Even so, firefighters continue to battle more than 70 fires across the country, mainly in the southern Peloponnese and north of Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2007] Reference

I do not include Macedonia and its prefectures that cover Greece proper, the Peloponnese, Cyrenaica, and Crete, to be a part of the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony and Cleopatra] Reference

He lived in exile in Argos, a Spartan enemy in the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

The inhabitants of both places had already taken refuge in the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

Themistocles argued that the road to the Peloponnese ran through the Hellespont.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

If the Greeks had lost at Salamis, Xerxes would have gone on to conquer the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

By the fourteenth century, the Serbian empire stretched from the Danube to the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sands of Empire] Reference

The water of the Saronic Gulf and the distant mountains of the Peloponnese serve as a backdrop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

In the Peloponnese, Adimantus of Corinth passed on his grudge against Athens to the next generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

And he insisted that the Persians would not advance to the Peloponnese unless the Greek fleet enticed them there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

That night, when the Greek fleet had returned to Salamis, the Persian army began marching toward the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

The Peloponnese would provide most of the infantrymen, since Athens would devote all its manpower to its big navy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference

Cythera, an island at the extreme southern end of the Peloponnese, seemed a damned long way to let a suspect travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

There would be a rematch between the two fleets, of course, but that would take place further south, near Athens or the Peloponnese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Salamis] Reference