Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountainous peninsula of northeast Greece projecting into the northern Aegean Sea with three fingerlike extensions.
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Examples
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It was colonized by a people from Chalcis in Euboea, and commanded a large district called Chalcidice, in which there were thirty-two cities.
The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1837
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The road to the royal tombs at Vergina lay to the west, but he turned east skirting the capital at Pella and crossed over the Axios River, riding many miles along the coast to the Chalcidice peninsula.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The road to the royal tombs at Vergina lay to the west, but he turned east skirting the capital at Pella and crossed over the Axios River, riding many miles along the coast to the Chalcidice peninsula.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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To the east the great three-fingered peninsula of Chalcidice reaches into the sea.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Next, Philip again invaded the Chalcidice peninsula in 349 and attacked the city of Olynthus.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Next, Philip again invaded the Chalcidice peninsula in 349 and attacked the city of Olynthus.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The road to the royal tombs at Vergina lay to the west, but he turned east skirting the capital at Pella and crossed over the Axios River, riding many miles along the coast to the Chalcidice peninsula.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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To the east the great three-fingered peninsula of Chalcidice reaches into the sea.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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To the east the great three-fingered peninsula of Chalcidice reaches into the sea.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Next, Philip again invaded the Chalcidice peninsula in 349 and attacked the city of Olynthus.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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