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==History== ===Classical Antiquity=== {{Main|Achaea (ancient region)}} [[File:Ancient peloponnese.svg|thumb|Map of ancient Peloponnese.]] The [[Achaean League]] was a Hellenistic-era confederation of city states in Achaea, founded in 280/281 BC. It later grew until it included most of [[Peloponnese]], much reducing the [[Kingdom of Macedon|Macedonian]] rule in the area.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} After Macedon's defeat by the Romans in the early 2nd century BC, the League was able finally to defeat a heavily weakened [[Sparta]] and take control of the entire Peloponnese. However, as the [[ancient Rome|Roman]] influence in the area grew, the league erupted into an open revolt against Roman domination, in what is known as [[Achaean War]]. The [[Achaeans (tribe)|Achaeans]] were defeated at the [[Battle of Corinth (146 BC)|Battle of Corinth]] (146 BC), and the League was dissolved by the Romans.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} In AD 51/52, [[Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus]] was proconsul of Achaea,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holloway |first=Paul |date=October 26, 2021 |title=Religious 'Slogans' in 1 Corinthians: Wit, Wisdom, and the Quest for Status in a Roman Colony |url=https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/72/1/125/6410791?login=false |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=academic.oup.com}}</ref> and is portrayed (under the name "Gallio") in the book of the [[Acts of the Apostles]], in the Bible, as presiding over the [[Claudius' expulsion of Jews from Rome#Acts of the Apostles|trial of the Apostle Paul]] in [[Ancient Corinth#Biblical Corinth|Corinth]] ({{bibleverse|Acts|18:12-17}}). ===Medieval history=== [[File:Byzantine Greece ca 900 AD.svg|thumb|right|Byzantine Greece, ca. 900 AD]] [[File:Greece in 1210.svg|thumb|right|Map of Frankish Greece with the [[Principality of Achaea]].]] Achaea remained a province of the [[Byzantine Empire]] after the [[fall of the Western Roman Empire]]. In the 6th and 7th centuries, [[Early Slavs|Slavs]] invaded Greece and reached the Peloponnese, settling there. The coastal cities remained largely under Byzantine control, and a [[Siege of Patras (805 or 807)|Siege of Patras]] in 805/807 failed. By the end of the 9th century, the whole peninsula was firmly under Byzantine control again, forming the [[Theme of the Peloponnese]]. After the [[Fourth Crusade]] several new [[Crusader states]] were founded in Greece. One of these was the [[Principality of Achaea]], founded in 1205, which like the Roman province covered a much larger area than the Achaea region. The Achaea region was among the core territories of the Principality, with four baronies: the extensive [[Barony of Patras]], the [[Barony of Vostitsa]], the [[Barony of Chalandritsa]], and the [[Barony of Kalavryta]]. Patras, under the powerful [[Latin Archbishopric of Patras]], over time became a semi-autonomous domain under the protection of Venice and the Holy See. Although Kalavryta was lost to the [[Byzantine Greeks]] already by the end of the 13th century, the other baronies survived until the Principality of Achaea was conquered by the Byzantine Empire in 1430, and became part of the [[Despotate of the Morea]]. The Despotate of the Morea fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1460. As a part of the [[Morean War]], the [[Republic of Venice]] captured Achaea in 1687 and [[Kingdom of the Morea|held it]] until 1715, when the Ottomans [[Ottoman reconquest of the Morea|recaptured]] the Peloponnese. Under Ottoman rule, Achaea was part of the [[Morea Eyalet]]. ===Modern history=== In the [[Greek War of Independence]], Aigio was one of the first cities to be liberated by the Greeks and all of Achaea was liberated by the end of 1821. Achaea produced several heroes including [[Konstantinos Kanaris|Kanaris]], [[Andreas Zaimis|Zaimis]] and [[Benizelos Roufos|Roufos]] and prime ministers of Greece including [[Andreas Michalakopoulos]] as well as some head of states. In the first administrative subdivision of independent Greece, Achaea was part of the [[Achaea and Elis Prefecture]]. This was divided into the [[prefectures of Greece|prefectures]] of Achaea and [[Elis (regional unit)|Elis]] in 1899. Achaea and Elis were reunited in 1909, and split again in 1930. Achaea saw an influx of refugees that arrived from [[Asia Minor]] during the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919β1922)|Greco Turkish War]] of 1919-1922. Tens of thousands were relocated to their camps in the suburbs of Patras and a few villages mainly within the coastline. One of the camps was named [[Prosfygika]].
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