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La⋅co⋅ni⋅a

  [luh-koh-nee-uh]
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–noun
1. an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
2. a city in central New Hampshire. 15,575.
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La·co·ni·a   (lə-kō'nē-ə)   
An ancient region of southern Greece in the southeast Peloponnesus. It was dominated by Sparta until the rise of the second Achaean League in the third and second centuries B.C.
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Laconia

nomos (department) and historic region in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese, southern Greece. The present department of Laconia corresponds closely to the ancient province, which was bounded by Arcadia and Argolis on the north and Messenia in the west. Sparta, capital of the modern department, was once the capital of the ancient province

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