Tripolitza

Tripolitza (officially Tripolis, 'three cities'), a town of Greece, under the Turkish rule capital of the Morea, 40 miles SW. of Corinth, in a plain 3000 feet above the sea. It is a comparatively modern place, and derives its name from being near the sites of the three ancient cities Tegea, Mantinea, and Pallantium. In 1821 it was stormed by the Greek insurgents, and in 1828 razed to the ground by the troops of Ibrahim Pasha. Pop. (1889) 10,698; (1896) 10,465.