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[[Image:PeloponnesosMap.jpgpng|thumbnailthumb|right|250px|Greece, withand the Peloponnese circled in red. Note the four sub-peninsulas of (l-r) [[Messenia]], [[Mani Peninsula|Mani]], [[Epidaurus]], and [[Argolis|the Argolid]].]]

The '''Peloponnese''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] '''Πελοπόννησος''', ''Peloponnesos''; [[Latin]]ized as '''Peloponnesus''', and principally known in [[English language|English]] as the ''Peloponnese'') is a large [[peninsula]] in southern [[Greece]], forming the part of the country south of the [[Gulf of Corinth]].

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==Geography==

The Peloponnese covers an area of some 21,549 km² (8,320 square miles). It constitutes the southernmost part of mainland Greece, although technically it is an island since the construction of the [[Corinth Canal]] in [[1893]]. It has two land connections with the mainlandrest of Greece, a natural one at the [[Isthmus of Corinth]] and an artificial one in the shape of the [[Rio-Antirio bridge]] (completed [[2004]]).

The peninsula has a mountainous interior and deeply indented coasts, with Mount [[Killíni]] its highest point at 2,376 m (7,795 ft). It possesses four south-pointing peninsulas, [[Messenia]], the [[Mani Peninsula]], [[Epidaurus]], and [[Argolis|the Argolid]] in the far northeast of the Peloponnese.