Messenia

[ muh-see-nee-uh, -seen-yuh ]

noun
  1. a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.

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How to use Messenia in a sentence

  • Cresphontes wished to have the fertile Messenia, and induced his brother to acquiesce in a trick which secured it to him.

British Dictionary definitions for Messenia

Messenia

/ (məˈsiːnɪə) /


noun
  1. the southwestern area of the Peloponnese in S Greece

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