Maratha () was an ancient village in the Greek region of Arcadia on the

Peloponnese The Peloponnese ( ), Peloponnesus ( ; , ) or Morea (; ) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridg ...

, situated in the district

Cynuria Cynuria ( – ''Kynouria'' or – ''Kynouriake'') is an ancient district on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese, between the Argolis and Laconia, so called from the Cynurians, one of the most ancient tribes in the peninsula. It was believed to ...

. The ancient author Pausanias mentions it as a "place" (χωρίον) situated between the sources of the Buphagus and the city

Gortys Gortyna (; also known as Gortyn (Γορτύν)) was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the form of Γορτύν; but afterwards became usually Gortyna (Γόρτυνα). According to Stephanus of Byzantium it was or ...

. It has been identified with the modern village of Vlachorraptis, which has been disputed, but is now widely accepted. Northeast of Vlachorraptis lies a small fortification on the peak of a mountain near the church of Agios Nikolaos. These remains have been dated to the late 4th or early 3rd century BC. The relevance of the place probably resulted from its location near the borders between the spheres of influence of

Megalopolis A megalopolis () or a supercity, also called a megaregion, is a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, resources, ecology, and so on. They are integrated enough ...

and Heraea.Mattern, Torsten; Goester, Yvonne C. (2023). ''Thisoa am Lykaion. Ergebnisse der Forschungen'' hisoa on the Lykaion. Results of the investigation Wiesbaden: Reichert, , p. 113.

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