Look up: Patras

1. Patras
   Patrai noun 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
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2. Patras
   Patras, Greece: see Pátrai.
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3. Patras
   Industrial city (hydroelectric installations, textiles, paper) in the northwestern Peloponnese region, Greece, on the Gulf of Patras; population (2001) 185,700. The ancient Patrai, it is the only one of the 12 cities of the ancient Greek province of Achaea to survive
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4. Patras
   , Classical Greek and Patrae--> (plural)) is Greece`s third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens. The city is built at the foothills of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the title =EU Commission, Directorate General f...
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5. Patras
   (titular see) `Patras` was a metropolitan see in Achaia, Greece. It is now a Catholic titular see. History: Patras was dependent on Rome until 733, when it became subject to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Nothing is known of the beginning of Christianity in the city of Patras, unless we ...
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