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Nauplia
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Nafplio
Nafplio
(,
Nafplio
) is a seaport town in the
Peloponnese
in
Greece
that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the
Argolic Gulf
. The town was an important seaport held under a succession of royal houses in the Middle Ages as part of the lordship of
Argos and Nauplia
, held initially by the
de la Roche
following the
Fourth Crusade
before coming under the
Republic of Venice
and, lastly, the
Ottoman Empire
. The town was the capital of the
First Hellenic Republic
and of the
Kingdom of Greece
, from the start of the
Greek Revolution
in 1821 until 1834. Nafplio is now the capital of the regional unit of
Argolis
.
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