Pelasgia

Pelasgia (Greek: Πελασγία, land of the Pelasgians) in historical geography may be an earlier toponym of

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References

  1. Ionic Greek: Pelasgiê , Herodotus 2.56.1 the place where this woman was sold in what is now Hellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia, was Thesprotia
  2. Pausanias, 8.4.1 After "the king Arcas" the land was called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and its inhabitants Arcadians instead of Pelasgians
  3. Natural History (Pliny) 4.4 The Peloponnesus, which was formerly called Apia and Pelasgia
  4. Strabo, Geographica 9. 5. 13,19 it is also called Larisa Pelasgia
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