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laconia

n. 1 A region (formerly Lacedemonia or Lacaedaemonia) in the southern Peloponnese which has had Sparta as its capital for over 3,000 years. 2 A town in Indiana 3 A city in New Hampshire 4 An unincorporated community in Tennessee

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Laconia, NH -- U.S. city in New Hampshire
Population (2000): 16411
Housing Units (2000): 8554
Land area (2000): 20.278985 sq. miles (52.522328 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.300647 sq. miles (16.318600 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 26.579632 sq. miles (68.840928 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40180
Located within: New Hampshire (NH), FIPS 33
Location: 43.550769 N, 71.467935 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Laconia, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 29
Housing Units (2000): 18
Land area (2000): 0.049723 sq. miles (0.128781 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.049723 sq. miles (0.128781 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40644
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.032174 N, 86.085271 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47135
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Headwords:
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Laconia

Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a region in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparta. The word laconic is derived from the name of the region by analogy—to speak in a concise way, as the Spartans were reputed by the Athenians to do.

Laconia (disambiguation)

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Usage examples of "laconia".

All this sitting around is bad for the digestion, we should organize a boar-hunt, I remember one boar-hunt I went on, in Laconia, a huge boar, it stood higher than a man, it had already killed half a dozen dogs, I remember it had the giblets of one of them hanging from its right tusk, no, it was the left, no, wait a minute.

Croceae, in southern Laconia close to the modern village of Stephania.

Tell me if, when I returned to England in the year eight, with a few thousand pounds, and was posted into the Laconia, if I had then written to you, would you have answered my letter?

As the ships coasted along shore they ravaged the seaboard of Laconia.

After a number of different conferences held during the summer, she succeeded in persuading Athens to withdraw from Pylos the Messenians and the rest of the Helots and deserters from Laconia, who were accordingly settled by her at Cranii in Cephallenia.

They also meant to demolish, if possible, the fort of Cypsela which the Mantineans had built and garrisoned in the Parrhasian territory, to annoy the district of Sciritis in Laconia.