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    The Mani Peninsula (Greek: Μάνη, romanized: Mánē), also long known by its medieval name Maina or Maïna (Greek: Μαΐνη), is a geographical and cultural region...
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    Μεσσηνίας), Agios Nikolaos or Saint Nicholas, is a fishing village in the Mani Peninsula in southern Greece about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south-east of Kalamata...
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    Maniots (redirect from Mani Greek Dialect)
    Μανιάτες) are an ethnic Greek subgroup that traditionally inhabit the Mani Peninsula; located in western Laconia and eastern Messenia, in the southern Peloponnese...
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    encompasses Cape Malea and Cape Tainaron and a large part of the Mani Peninsula. The Mani Peninsula is in the west region of Laconia. The islands of Kythira and...
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    and in the Argolid Peninsula in the northeast. The Peloponnese possesses four south-pointing peninsulas, the Messenian, the Mani, the Cape Malea (also...
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  • Xan Fielding around the Mani peninsula in southern Greece. The book chronicles Leigh Fermor's travels around the Mani peninsula in southern mainland Greece...
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  • Look up mani, maní, or mâni in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mani may refer to: Mani (name), (Persian: مانی), a given name and surname (including a...
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    day on 25 March. All Greek territory, except the Ionian Islands, the Mani Peninsula, and mountainous regions in Epirus, came under Ottoman rule in the 15th...
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    Areopoli (category Populated places in the Mani Peninsula)
    Areopoli (Greek: Αρεόπολη; before 1912 Τσίμοβα, Tsimova) is a town on the Mani Peninsula, Laconia, Greece. The word Areopoli, which means "city of Ares", the...
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    Μαυρομιχάλης, [mav.ro.miˈxa.lis], lit. 'black Michael') is a Greek family from Mani Peninsula, which played a major role in modern Greek history. According to the...
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  • Bey of Mani (Greek: Μπέης της Μάνης), in Greek often referred to as the Prince of Mani (Ηγεμόνας της Μάνης), was the ruler of the Mani Peninsula, an autonomous...
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    Gytheio (category Populated places in the Mani Peninsula)
    Gytheion (Ancient Greek: Γύθειον), is a town on the eastern shore of the Mani Peninsula, and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the...
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    the Stato da Mar, were not incorporated in the Ottoman Empire. The Mani Peninsula in the Peloponnese was not fully integrated into the Ottoman Empire...
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  • Porto Kagio (category Populated places in the Mani Peninsula)
    Πόρτο Κάγιο) is a seaside village in the East Mani municipality on the eastern side of the Mani Peninsula, Greece. It faces a small bay off the Laconian...
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    Oitylo (category Populated places in the Mani Peninsula)
    part of the municipality East Mani, of which it is a municipal unit. Oitylo is one of the oldest towns in the Mani Peninsula. It was mentioned in the Iliad...
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  • and the European part of Turkey. Chalkidiki, Greece Kassandra, Greece Mani Peninsula, Greece Mount Athos, Greece Peloponnese, Greece (now an island because...
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    Stoupa (category West Mani)
    Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Lefktro within the municipality of West Mani, in Messenia and the historic region of Mani Peninsula...
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    decorated with marble columns and sculptures, which used marble from the Mani Peninsula in the southern Peloponnese. Its artwork has been suggested to have...
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    tourism. East Mani comprises the southeastern part of the geographic and historical region of the Mani Peninsula, also known as Laconian Mani (Λακωνική Μάνη)...
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    the Mani Peninsula, also known as Messenian Mani (Μεσσηνιακή Μάνη) or Outer Mani (Έξω Μάνη), in juxtaposition with the southeastern part of Mani (Laconian...
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  • Apidima) is a complex of five caves located on the western shore of Mani Peninsula in southern Greece. A systematic investigation of the cave has yielded...
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    Maní is a small city in Maní Municipality in the central region of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is about 100 km to the south...
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    Greco-Roman magic. Gemistus Plethon, who was from Mistras (near the Mani Peninsula—where paganism had endured until the 12th century) encouraged the Medici...
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    Thomas to submit to the Pope's protection before the end of 1460. The Mani Peninsula at the south end of the Morea resisted under a loose coalition of the...
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    such as the Melingoi and Ezeritai. According to Byzantine sources, the Mani Peninsula in southern Laconian remained pagan until well into the 10th century...
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  • Grand Magne (category Mani Peninsula)
    ("Old Maina", in Greek: Παλαιά Μαΐνη) was a Frankish castle in the Mani Peninsula, Greece. It was built, according to the Chronicle of the Morea, ca....
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    Battle of Vromopigada (category Mani Peninsula)
    Battle of Vromopigada was fought between the Ottoman Turks and the Maniots of Mani in 1770. The location of the battle was in a plain between the two towns...
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    "Kingdom of the Morea" until recovered by the Ottomans in 1715. The Mani Peninsula, a part of modern Messenia, remained autonomous from Turkish rule. Messenia...
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  • Angitis – Maara, Prefecture of Drama Apidima Cave – western shore of Mani Peninsula Archantropon of the Red Stone Cave – near Petralona, Prefecture of Chalkidiki...
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    Mavrovouni, Laconia (category Populated places in the Mani Peninsula)
    black mountain") is a village (population approximately 500) in the Mani Peninsula, Greece, south of Gytheio town. Mavrovouni is a village about 2 km south...
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