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Corinth


Ancient city of the Peloponnese, Greece. Located on the Gulf of Corinth, the site was occupied before 3000 BC but developed as a commercial centre only in the 8th century BC. In the late 6th century BC, it was outstripped by Athens. Occupied in 338 BC by Philip II, it was destroyed in 146 BC by Rome. In 44 BC Julius Caesar reestablished Corinth as a Roman colony; the New Testament includes the letters addressed to its Christian community by St. Paul. It declined in the later Middle Ages; its ruins are near the modern city of Corinth.

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