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Póros

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Póros, island of the Saronikós (Saronic) group, lying close to the Argolís peninsula of the Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), part of the nomós (department) of Attica (Attikí), Greece. It actually comprises two islands totaling 9 square miles (23 square km), the larger of which is the wooded, limestone island of Kalávria, separated from the village of Galatás on the mainland by a narrow channel, or poros, whence the collective name. Between the channel and Kalávria is the small, barren volcanic (trachyte) islet of Póros, an Athenian resort joined to Kalávria by a bridge. Calauria (modern Kalávria) on the central plateau ...(100 of 157 words)

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