Corinth

Japanese: コリントス

A port city located in the isthmus at the northeastern end of the Peloponnese Peninsula in southern Greece, at the head of the Gulf of Corinth. A center of industry and commerce, especially the trade of dried grapes. It prospered as a key point of land and sea transportation from around the 8th century BC, and in the 6th century BC became a powerful polis on par with Athens and Sparta, and is known for the Corinthian War and the Corinthian League. It was destroyed by Rome in 146 BC, but rebuilt in 44 BC. Paul wrote his Epistle to the Corinthians here. It gradually declined after the Middle Ages, and the old city that had existed since ancient times was destroyed in an earthquake in 1858, and a new city was built on the coast about 6 km northeast. Population: 29,787 (2001).
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Japanese:

ギリシア南部，ペロポネソス半島北東端の地峡部，コリントス湾奥に位置する港市。工業および商業，特に干しブドウ取引の中心。前８世紀ごろから海陸の交通の要地として繁栄し，前６世紀にアテナイ，スパルタと並ぶ有力なポリスとなり，コリントス戦争，コリントス同盟で知られる。前146年ローマに破壊されたが，前44年再建。パウロが〈コリント人への手紙〉を書いた。中世以後次第に衰え，1858年の地震で古代以来の旧市は壊滅，北東約6kmの海岸に新市が建設された。２万9787人（2001）。
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