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... Messenia , Modern Greek MESSINÍA , ancient district and modern nomós ( department ) of the southwestern Peloponnese , Greece , bounded Wall of the Venetian fort , in Methóni , Messenia , Greece Starfoto - ZEFA on the east by the ...
... Messenia , Modern Greek MESSINÍA , ancient district and modern nomós ( department ) of the southwestern Peloponnese , Greece , bounded Wall of the Venetian fort , in Methóni , Messenia , Greece Starfoto - ZEFA on the east by the ...
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... Messenia in the Peloponnese . After regain- ing its independence , the city was destroyed by the Carthaginian Himilco in 396 BC . It was reconquered and rebuilt by the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius and was later involved in the war between ...
... Messenia in the Peloponnese . After regain- ing its independence , the city was destroyed by the Carthaginian Himilco in 396 BC . It was reconquered and rebuilt by the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius and was later involved in the war between ...
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... Messenia , as well as in inscriptions on pots and jars from Thebes , Mycenae , Tiryns , Eleu- sis , and Boeotian Orchomenos . mycetoma ( disease ) : see Madura foot . Mycobacterium , genus of rod - shaped bac- teria of the family ...
... Messenia , as well as in inscriptions on pots and jars from Thebes , Mycenae , Tiryns , Eleu- sis , and Boeotian Orchomenos . mycetoma ( disease ) : see Madura foot . Mycobacterium , genus of rod - shaped bac- teria of the family ...
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