X-Nico

unusual facts about Argolis


George Horton

He wrote a lyrical visitor's guide to Athens and composed a reflective description of his stay in Argolis.


Agios Vasileios, Corinthia

The settlement on the hill of present-day Archaies Kleones ("Ancient Cleonae"), northwest of Ayios Vasilios, was an important Roman settlement.

Cius

Following the population exchange in 1923, the Greek refugees from Cius established the village of Nea Kios, in Argolis, Greece.

Pelasgians

Pelasgus built the citadel Larissa of Argos on the Erasinus river, whence the name Pelasgic Argos (of the Peloponnesus), but later resettled inland, built Parrhasia and named the region or caused it to be named Pelasgia, to be renamed Arcadia with the coming of the Greeks.


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