Peloponnese Island

Peloponnese peninsula is located in southern Greece, with an area of ​​about 21 549 square kilometers, and is administratively divided between the territory of the Peloponnese in the south and west region of Greece in the north of the peninsula Blpons
The name means Peloponnese «Island Blobs» Pelops, a humble important god in Greek mythology;, as stated in its name Alhomria Ages as an island separate from the Greek mainland. He was in the medieval Slavic name of Moreh Morea and means «the land of the sea». The surface consists of internal and coastal plains interrupted by many mountain ranges of up to an area of ​​about half the area of ​​the peninsula, and has the highest rise about 1,400 meters above sea level. The territory of the region, the North West's most fertile parts of the peninsula which produces grain and grapevines and olive trees, citrus and figs. It is the same land that witnessed the events of the ancient history of the region and the mediator who come Peloponnese war events in his introduction.









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