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en-wikipedia-org-9097		Peloponnese - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5267	697	67	The Peloponnese (/ˌpɛləpəˈniːz, -iːs/) or Peloponnesus (/ˌpɛləpəˈniːsəs/; Greek: Πελοπόννησος, romanized: Peloponnesos, IPA: [peloˈponisos]) is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece. The Mycenaean civilization, mainland Greece's (and Europe's) first major civilization, dominated the Peloponnese in the Bronze Age from its stronghold at Mycenae in the north-east of the peninsula. During classical antiquity, the Peloponnese was at the heart of the affairs of ancient Greece, possessed some of its most powerful city-states, and was the location of some of its bloodiest battles. Along with the rest of Greece, the Peloponnese fell to the expanding Roman Republic in 146 BC, when the Romans razed the city of Corinth and massacred its inhabitants. This Greek province (and later a semi-autonomous Despotate) staged a gradual reconquest, eventually conquering the Frankish principality by 1430.[25] The same period was also marked by the migration and settlement of the Arvanites to Central Greece and the Peloponnese.[26]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9097.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9097.txt