Nafplio (grc)

Nafplio

Nafplio ranks 5,204th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Niles, Ohio, Dover, Ohio, and Bakhchysarai. Memorable people born in Nafplio include Charilaos Trikoupis, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, and Panagiotis Tachtsidis. Memorable people who died in Nafplio include Ioannis Kapodistrias, Francesco Morosini, and Demetrios Ypsilantis. Nafplio has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Nafplio is located in Greece.

Nafplio or Nauplio is a coastal city located in the Peloponnese in Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit of Argolis and an important tourist destination. Founded in antiquity, the city became an important seaport in the Middle Ages during the Frankokratia as part of the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, held initially by the de la Roche following the Fourth Crusade before coming under the Republic of Venice and, lastly, the Ottoman Empire. The city was the second capital of the First Hellenic Republic and of the Kingdom of Greece, from 1827 until 1834. Read more on Wikipedia