Central inland mountainous region of the Peloponnese with a mean height of 500 m above sea level. The borders of ancient A. are not identical with those of the modern nomos Arkadia with its chief place of Tripolis (founded in the 14th cent. AD, Turkish name: Tripolitsa). To the north, A. extended to the massifs of Cyllene (Ziria, 2376 m), Oroania (Chelmos, 2355 m), and Erymanthus (Olonos, 2224 m); in the south-west, the sanctuary of Bassae, nowada…
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Wirbelauer, Eckhard (Freiburg),
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