Pelasgia (, land of the Pelasgians) in historical geography may be an earlier toponym of
Greece (Hellas)Ionic Greek: Pelasgiê, Herodotus 2.56.1 the place where this woman was sold in what is now Hellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia, was Thesprotia ArcadiaPausanias, 8.4.1 After "the king Arcas" the land was called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and its inhabitants Arcadians instead of Pelasgians the PeloponneseNatural History (Pliny) 4.4 The Peloponnesus, which was formerly called Apia and Pelasgia Larissa Cremaste, a city in Phthiotis, southern Thessaly,Strabo, Geographica 9. 5. 13,19 it is also called Larisa Pelasgia where the historical Pelasgiotis district existed.
See also Pelasgus
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