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Alpheios

Also known as Alfeios, Alpheus

The Alpheios is the longest river of the Peloponnese in Greece, flowing about 110 km from the mountains of Arcadia westwards through Elis, past ancient Olympia, to the Ionian Sea. In Greek myth it was a river god who pursued the nymph Arethusa. Its upper valley was guarded in the Middle Ages by the Frankish castle of Karytaina.

Alpheios
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Barony of Karytaina

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Alpheios. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/alpheios
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