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Encyclopedia Britannica



ACHAEA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 141 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACHAEA , a
district
  on the northern
coast
  of the Peloponnese, stretching from the
mountain
  ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the S. to a narrow strip of fertile land on the N., bordering the Corinthian Gulf, into which the
mountain
  Panachaicus projects. Achaea is bounded on the W. by the territory of Elis, on the E. by that of Sicyon, which, however, was sometimes included in it. The origin of the name has given rise to much speculation; the current theory is that the Achaeans (q.v.) were driven back into this region by the Dorian invaders of the Peloponnese, Another Achaea, in the
south
  of Thessaly, called sometimes Achaea Phthiotis, has been supposed to be the cradle of the race. In Roman times the name of the province of Achaea was given to the whole of
Greece
 , except Thessaly,
Epirus
 , and Acarnania.
Herodotus
  (i. 145) mentions the twelve cities of Achaea ; these mot as a religious confederacy in the
oxy-
acetylene blowpipe.
temple of Poseidon Heliconius at Helice; for their later history see ACHAEAN LEAGUE. During the middle ages, after the Latin conquest of the Eastern
Empire
 , Achaea was a Latin principality, the first prince being William de Champlitte (d. 1209). It survived, with various dismemberments, until 1430, when the last prince, Centurione Zaccaria, ceded the remnant of it to his son-in-law,
Theodorus
  II., despot of Mistra. In 1460 it was conquered, with the rest of the Morea, by the Turks. In modern times the
coast
  of Achaea is mainly given up to the currant industry; the currants are shipped from Patras, the second town of
Greece
 , and from Aegion (Vostitza).


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