HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Peloponnesus
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Athens
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sparta is located in the region of Laconia, in the south-eastern Peloponnese.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Peloponnese is the large peninsula that hangs from the rest of the Greek mainland by a narrow isthmus an hour’s drive west of Athens.
Detailed explanation-3: -Peloponnese, also spelled Peloponnesus, Modern Greek Pelopónnisos, peninsula of 8, 278 square miles (21, 439 square km), a large, mountainous body of land jutting southward into the Mediterranean that since antiquity has been a major region of Greece, joined to the rest of mainland Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sparta, also known as Lacedaemon, was an ancient Greek city-state located primarily in a region of southern Greece called Laconia.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Peloponnese, in Greece, is a geographical area of mainland Greece, located on the southern side of the country. This region could be described as an island connected to the mainland in two spots: the Corinth Canal and the Bridge of Rio Antirio.