from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- An ancient region of southwest Greece in the Peloponnesus on the Ionian Sea. It fought a series of wars against Sparta c. 736 to 371 B.C. The Romans conquered the area in 146 B.C.
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- proper n. A region in southwestern Peloponnese which has its modern capital at Kalamata. The original capital was at Messene.
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