What was the ancient name for the city-state of Sparta?
Lacedaemon
Peloponnese
Achaean
Laconia
Answer
In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese.
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