6 sentences with 'peninsula'
Example sentences and phrases with the word peninsula and other words derived from it.
• « Over the course of some five centuries, the Romans expanded from the city of Rome in the centre of the Italian peninsula to rule an empire that stretched from Britain to Spain and from North Africa to Persia (modern-day Iran). »
• « From about 700 BCE, the Spartans conquered a large swathe of territory in their home region of Greece, the southern Greek peninsula called the Peloponnese. »
• « Persia was the regional "superpower" of the time, while the Greeks were just a group of disunited city-states on a rocky peninsula to the northwest. »
• « However, the Macedonians tended to stay out of the political affairs of the other Greeks; they did not invade the Greek peninsula itself in their constant wars, nor did they take sides in conflicts such as the Peloponnesian War. »
• « Rome was also on the route between the Greek colonies of southern Italy and various Italian cultures in the central and northern part of the peninsula. »
• « Theodoric presided over decades of prosperity, restoring peace to the Italian peninsula and joining other Gothic territories in the west. »