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  • The wine of the country we of course also had, one called Morea not unlike champagne.

    The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson

  • The chanell lieth Southwest and Northeast betweene the Islands and Morea, which is firme land.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that, in accordance with the wishes of the donors, the property known as Morea shall be reserved for the use of distinguished visitors to the University, as assigned by the Buildings and Grounds

    Board of Visitors minutes 1960

  • Persia were approaching, they sent a runner, Pheidippides by name, to ask aid of Sparta, a city one hundred and forty miles away, in the peninsula now called the Morea, where dwelt the sturdiest fighters of

    Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton

  • Subsequently it was applied by the Romans to the whole Peloponnesus, now called the Morea, and the south of Greece.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • Greeks, just as the same land is called Morea by the modern post -

    Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855

  • From Mr. Norborne Berkeley, to be used for the renovation of "Morea"

    Board of Visitors minutes 1962

  • Wise, to be used toward the purchase of "Morea", securities valued at

    Board of Visitors minutes 1959

  • So Leake ( "Morea," iii. 376), who conjectures that this fortress was in the maritime plain.

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • See Leake, "Morea," ii. 322; also "Peloponn." p. 248, in which place he corrects his former view as to the situation of

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

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