Pelasgia
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Pelasgia (land of Pelasgians) in ancient Greek historical geography may be an earlier toponym of
- Epirus
- Greece (Hellas)[1]
- Arcadia[2]
- Peloponnese[3]
- Larissa Cremaste a city in Phthiotis, South Thessaly,[4] where the historical Pelasgiotis district existed also till Late antiquity.
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References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ Ionic Greek: Pelasgiê , Herodotus 2.56.1 the place where this woman was sold in what is now Hellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia, was Thesprotia
- ↑ Pausanias, 8.4.1 After "the king Arcas" the land was called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and its inhabitants Arcadians instead of Pelasgians
- ↑ Natural History (Pliny) 4.4 The Peloponnesus, which was formerly called Apia and Pelasgia
- ↑ Strabo, Geographica 9. 5. 13,19 it is also called Larisa Pelasgia
