Tripoli (Greece)
Tripoli (Greek: Τρίπολη ; Polished with rottenstone , sometimes Tripolitsa , Tripolitza or Tripolizza ) is the chief town of the names of Arcadie in the center of the Peloponnese, with the foot of the mount Apano-Khrépa (in the past Ménale), in the center of a fertile plain. To the Middle Ages, the city bore the name of Drobolitsa . Nowadays, Tripoli is the seat of recent the Université of the Peloponnese.
History
The city was founded about the 14th century to replace the three depopulated cities of Mantinée, Tégée and Pallantion. At the 17th century, it was called Tripolizza in Greek and Taraboloussa in Turkish. In 1770, it became capital of the Peloponnese. At the time of the War of Greek independence, Theódoros Kolokotrónis took it on October 5th, 1821 and massacred the Turkish population there: to see Head office of Tripolizza (1821). Ibrahim Pasha took it again in June 1825. It destroyed it in 1828. It was rebuilt at once by independent and baptized Greece Tripolis.
Demography
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