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Calamate : in Messenia, on the gulf of Coron

29. Léondari : in Arcadia, at the northeni exti'emity of Mount

Taygetus.

30. Tripolizza : Tripolitza or Tripolis, forty miles south-west

of Corinth, a comparatively modem place. It got its name from being near the site of the three ancient cities — Tegea, Mantinea, and Pallantium. In 1821 it was stormed by the Greek iusurgents, and in 1828 razed to the ground by the troops of Ibrahim Pasha.

33. Argos, the ancient capital of Argolis, in the north-east of

the Peloponnesus, plays a great part in Greek mythology. Its présent name is Planitza.

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