Prefectures : Arcadia , Argolis , Corinth, Laconia, Messinia

The Peloponnese as seen from space


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The Peloponnese (Greek Πελοπόννησος, Peloponnesos; Latinized as Peloponnesus, and principally known in English as the Peloponnese) is a large peninsula in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth.



The peninsula has a mountainous interior and deeply indented coasts, with Mount Killíni its highest point at 2,376 m (7,795 ft). It possesses four south-pointing peninsulas, Messenia, the Mani Peninsula, Epidaurus, and the Argolid in the far northeast of the Peloponnese.

Two groups of islands lie off the Peloponnesan coast: the Argo-Saronic Islands to the east, and the Ionian Islands to the west. The island of Kythira, off the Epidaurus peninsula to the south of the Peloponnese, is considered to be part of the Ionian Islands.






Image from the year 1909


2007 Greek forest fires, Peloponnes and Euboea


The principle modern cities of the Peloponnese are ([2001] census):

Archaeological sites


Epidaurus (ancient religious and healing centre)
Olympia (site of the Olympic Games)
Messene (ancient city)
Monemvasia (medieval fortress-town)
Mycenae (fortress-town of the Aegean civilization)
Tegea (ancient religious centre)
Tiryns (ancient fortified settlement)


Political organisation

Though "Peloponnese" is used to refer to the entire peninsula, the periphery with that name includes only part of that landmass.

The Peloponnese is a periphery of Greece, consisting of 5 prefectures (Greek: νόμοι):


The prefectures of Achaea and Ilia are also part of the peninsula, but are part of the West Greece periphery. A small part of the peninsula belongs to the "mainland" periphery of Attica.

Chronicle of Morea


Municipalities and communities of the Argolis Prefecture

Municipalities and communities of the Laconia Prefecture

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