Municipality of Tripolis -

Tripoli (Greek: , Tripoli, formerly , Tripolis; earlier Tripolitsa) is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the Peloponnese region as well as of the regional unit of Arcadia. The homonym municipality has around 47,000 inhabitants. History In spring 1770 during a Greek uprising known as Orlov Revolt, the revolutionary armies were halted out of Tripolitsa. In retaliation for the Greek uprising, Albanian mercenaries of the Ottomans slaughtered 3,000 Greeks in a few hours upon entering the city. Total massacre and destruction of the city was avoided after intervention of Osman bey, leader of the Albanian mercenaries. Before the Greek War of Independence, under the Ottoman name of Tripolice, it was one of the Ottoman administrative centers in the Peloponnese (the Morea Eyalet, often called pashalik of Tripolitsa) and had large Muslim and Jewish populations. Tripolis was one of the main targets of the Greek insurgents in the Greek War of Indep...