Old Greece
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The term Old Greece (Ancient Greek: Παλαιά Ἑλλάς, Greek: Παλαιά Ελλάδα) is a geographical, cultural, and political term used at different times for southern and predominantly mainland Greece.
In Classical studies, "Old Greece" is the area of Greece defined as the core of the ancient Greek world by the 2nd-century geographer Pausanias in his Description of Greece. It comprises the Peloponnese and the eastern part of Central Greece, including Attica, but excluding the islands, thus largely corresponding with the area controlled by the major city-states in the mainland of Classical Greece, e.g., Athens, Sparta, Thebes. It roughly corresponds to the Roman province of Achaea.[1]
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