ACHAIA, a name taken for that part of Greece
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which Ptolemy calls Hellas; the younger Pliny, Grecia; now called Livadia; bounded on the north by Theffaly, the river Sperchius, the Sinus Malicus, and mount Oeta; on the west by the river Achelous; on the east, turning a little to the north, it is washed by the Archipelago, down to the promontory of Sunium; on the south, joined to the Peloponnesus, or Morea, by the isthmus of Corinth, five miles broad. See LIVADIA.