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PELASGIA

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(Pliny; the ancient name of Lesbos; so called from the Pelagi, its first inhabitants (Diodorus Siculus). Also the ancient name of Peloponnesus, from Pelasgus, a native of the country (Nicolaus Damaeconus, Ephorus).