ACHÆA PROPRIA, anciently a small district in the north of Peloponnesus, running 65 miles along the bay of Corinth, and bounded on the west by the Ionian Sea, on the south by Elis and Arcadia, and on the east by Sicyonia. Its in-
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Achaia
Acheen.
habitants were the Achæans, properly so called; its metropolis Patra. It now forms part of the kingdom of Greece.
ACHAIA also denoted all those countries that joined in the Achaean league, reduced by the Romans to a province. Likewise the Peloponnese.