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    Nafplio (redirect from Nafplion, Greece)
    media related to Nafplion. Municipality of Nafplio Official Website Historical images, poetry Nafplion City Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Nafplion....
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    Argolid, Greece. It is currently on display at the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion. Several elements of body armour (body cuirass, shoulder guards, breast...
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    ships which contributed to several campaigns most notably the siege of Nafplion. Following the defeat of her faction in the Greek civil war in 1824, Bouboulina...
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    Greek rebellion by advancing to Corinth, relieve the besieged garrison of Nafplion and recapture the capital of the Morea, Tripoli. While the Ottomans were...
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    Argos and Nafplion, which was then the most important town in the Peloponnese. The Venetian army, ca. 12,000 strong, landed around Nafplion between 30...
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    over southern Argolis. The museum is situated in the central square of Nafplion. It is housed in two floors of the old Venetian barracks. The oldest exhibits...
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    was forced to resign after six months. The Fifth National Assembly at Nafplion drafted a new royal constitution, while the three "Protecting Powers" (Great...
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    (Executive of 1822) Second (Astros) Third (Troezen) Fourth (Argos) Fifth (Nafplion) International Conferences, treaties and protocols Congress of Laibach...
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    and operations were limited. He took part in the sieges of Tripolitsa, Nafplion and the Battle of Dervenakia, securing the Greek dominion in Morea. On...
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    Palamidi (category Nafplion)
    top of the fortress there are over one thousand. Locals in the town of Nafplion will say there are 999 steps to the top of the castle, and specials can...
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  • the Greeks convened at Argos on 5 December 1831, before relocating to Nafplion in early 1832. The Assembly, the last of a series of similar conventions...
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    in Nafplion. No longer used for trains. Now a cafe, museum site and municipal conservatory. The station in Nafplion, March 2008 Old train in Nafplion Kalamata...
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    The Venetian fort of Palamidi in Nafplion, Greece, one of many forts that secured Venetian trade routes in the Eastern Mediterranean...
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    from the Palamidi in Nafplio Argolic Gulf - view from Nafplion Bourtzi Tower View of Nafplion, Bourtzi and Argolic Gulf Sailboat on the Argolic Gulf...
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    Russian Empire a European orientation. The economically significant city of Nafplion became the first capital of Greece, when Athens was an unimportant village...
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    was chosen as its first king. Otto arrived at the provisional capital, Nafplion, in 1833 aboard a British warship. Otto's reign would prove troubled, but...
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    the involvement of the Spetsiote fleet in sieges of the fortresses of Nafplion and Monemvasia and naval battles of Samos (1824) and Kafireas (1825). Along...
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    independent Greece was temporarily Aigina (1828–1829) and later officially Nafplion (1828–1834). After his assassination, the European powers turned Greece...
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    to take the eastern section, where the rebel government was based (at Nafplion). The Greek revolutionaries remained defiant, and appointed experienced...
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    touring Europe to rally support for the Greek cause, Kapodistrias landed in Nafplion on 7 January 1828, and arrived in Aegina on 8 January 1828. The British...
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    control the fort of Nafplion. In November 1822, the central administration decided that the new National Assembly would take place in Nafplion, and asked Kolokotronis...
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  • archaeological site at Epidaurus 1897 View # 35 Shepherds leading sheep to the Nafplion Market 1897 View # 41 The Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae 1897 View # 43...
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  • United Kingdom Assassination of Ioannis Kapodistrias on October 9, 1831, Nafplion, Greece Execution of Lajos Batthyány on October 6, 1849, Pest, Austrian...
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    municipal unit has an area of 138.138 km2. It is 11 kilometres (7 miles) from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour. A settlement of great antiquity, Argos...
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    on 10 July 1977. Athens became the capital of Greece in 1834, following Nafplion, which was the provisional capital from 1829. The municipality (City) of...
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    Bourtzi Castle (category Nafplion)
    was captured by 200 armed soldiers. The castle was then used to bombard Nafplion and managed to thwart the resupply of the besieged Turks from an English...
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    (Executive of 1822) Second (Astros) Third (Troezen) Fourth (Argos) Fifth (Nafplion) International Conferences, treaties and protocols Congress of Laibach...
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    forced to lift the siege and retreat to the Hexamilion and to Nauplia (Nafplion). In Bosnia, Matthias Corvinus seized over sixty fortified places and succeeded...
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    taken in 1827. The only territory still held by Greek nationalists was in Nafplion, Mani, Hydra, Spetses and Aegina. A strong current of philhellenism had...
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  • government. Kolokotronis refused, and proposed that the Assembly take place in Nafplion, while the city remained under his control. His stance divided his supporters...
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