ACHAIA

ACHAIA, a name taken for that part of Greece cap 56. which Ptolemy calls Hellas; the younger Pliny, Grecia; now called Livadia: bounded on the north by Thessaly, the river Sperchius, the Sinus Maliacus, and Mount Oëta; 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 Peloponnesus, or the Morea, by the isthmus of Corinth, five miles broad.