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Named as crossed by Byron 1810-07-29. The narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the rest of the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth. Wiki

Named as the the place of first of 200 plen opCs 1810-10-04 Byron to Hobhouse. BLJ 2-23n

"Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a “Spartan state paper” which by his account is anything but Laconic, now the said Sparta having some years ceased to be a state, what the devil does he mean by a paper?" 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse

"cretan wine" in 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse

Location of JoGalt's house. 1810-10-04

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to JoHobhouse. A city in ancient Greece that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. "Mantinea was an ancient town in Arcadia not far from the modern Tripolis (Tripolitza). The…

Named as visited by Byron to JoHobhouse 1810-09-25. A seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. During the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, under Venetian domination,…

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to Hobhouse.

A town in the English county of Suffolk from where ChMatthews writes JoHobhouse in 1809-09-25

Named and visited by Byron in 1810-08-23 where an Engishman Watson is buried. The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple; it remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric…