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Patras

noun
1.
A port city in western Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese on an inlet of the Ionian Sea; was a major trade center from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century BC; commercial importance revived during the Middle Ages.  Synonym: Patrai.





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"Patras" Quotes from Famous Books



... derived from roads, is forming such bridle-paths as will enable them to arrive at their journey's end a few hours sooner. The Greek government never though of doing this, and every traveller who has performed the journey from Patras to Athens, must have seen fearful proofs of this neglect in the danger he ran of breaking his neck at the Kaka-scala or cursed ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various


Words linked to "Patras" :   metropolis, urban center, Patrai, city, port


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