Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ARGOLID

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Definitions of ARGOLID

1. A regional unit in eastern, Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Nafplio. Its original capital was at Argos.

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Examples of Using ARGOLID in a Sentence

• Poseidon had dried up all the region' of Argos' springs after the Argolid was awarded to the protection of Hera.
• This made Amphiaraus a great-grandson of Melampus, himself a legendary seer, and a member of one of the most powerful dynastic families in the Argolid.
• Doric was spoken in a vast area, including northern Greece (Acarnania, Aetolia, Epirus, western and eastern Locris, Phocis, Doris, and possibly ancient Macedonia), most of the Peloponnese (Achaea, Elis, Messenia, Laconia, Argolid, Aegina, Corinth, and Megara), the southern Aegean (Kythira, Milos, Thera, Crete, Karpathos, and Rhodes), as well as the colonies of some of those regions in Cyrene, Magna Graecia, the Black Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Sea.
• When the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese they expelled the Achaeans from the Argolid and Lacedaemonia.
• Among his other horses, Pegram owned Captain Steve, High Stakes Player, Queen of Money, Miss Gibson County, Wheeler Oil, Argolid, Favored One, Arches of Gold, Pussycat Doll, The Texas Tunnel and Uncle Chuck.
• Important EH sites are clustered on the Aegean shores of the mainland in Boeotia and Argolid (Manika, Lerna, Pefkakia, Thebes, Tiryns) or coastal islands such as Aegina (Kolonna) and Euboea (Lefkandi) and are marked by pottery showing influences from western Anatolia and the introduction of the fast-spinning version of the potter's wheel.
• He expanded Argive rule over the Argolid; thus, Ephorus credits him with reuniting the Argive kingdom, supposedly broken up after the time of Temenus.
• Other archaeological projects with ASCSA involvement, past and present, include surveys in the Southern Argolid, in Messenia and at Vrokastro (Crete) and excavations at Olynthus (Greek Macedonia), Samothrace (North Aegean), the islet of Mitrou (Central Greece), Halai (Phthiotis), Isthmia, Kenchreai, Nemea, Sicyon (all in Corinthia), Lerna, Argos, Franchthi cave and Halieis (Argolid), Mt.
• He excavated sites in the Argolid in Greece, including Asine, Dendra and Midea, as well as other sites in Asia Minor including Milas and Labraunda, searching for the origins of the Linear B writing system.
• The Dendra panoply or Dendra armour is an example of Mycenaean-era panoply (full-body armor) made of bronze plates uncovered in the village of Dendra in the Argolid, Greece.
• The project A Greek cityscape and its people: a study of ancient Hermione, in the Argolid, was initiated in 2015 as a collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolida and the Swedish Institute at Athens.
• Her previous research included: the politics of gender and sexuality in London; the politics of the intense promotion of Information and Communications Technologies in Manchester; shifting perceptions of environment and land degradation in the Argolid Valley and northwestern Greece; concepts of border relations on the Greek-Albanian border; the appearance, disappearance and reappearance of the Balkans; the circulation of money in the Aegean; the notion of trust and the UK's new financial elites; the shifting concept of border in the eastern peripheries of Europe; and the locational dynamics of the Mediterranean region.
• Karouzou held the post in Thessaly and then in the Argolid, where she excavated tombs from the Mycenaean and classical periods; worked in ancient Epidaurus; and worked to preserve historic buildings in the town of Nafplio, where she later published a guide.
• She is a member of the Dutch Institute at Athens, has directed projects on the Middle Helladic Argolid and on the Argos tumuli, and is currently the director (with Adamantia Vasilogamvrou) of the excavation of the Northern Cemetery at Ayios Vasileios, Sparta, and of the surface survey of the surrounding area.

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