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Greek, Modern: Αργολίδα Argolida, Ancient/Katharevousa: Αργολίς, and as a second name) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is within located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese. The area is arable in the central part.
Its primary agricultural source is oranges and several mised farming. Beaches are founded in the south and east. Mountains and hills dominate the west, northeast and east.
It is bounded by Arcadia to the west and southwest, Corinthia to the north, the Saronic Gulf and the Attica prefecture and the Troizina area to the east and southeast by water, and the Argolian Gulf to the south.
The ancient Argolis formerly include an area of Troezen.
Its mountain ranges includes Lyrkeia and Trachy in the northwest
From 1833 to 1899, the prefecture was Argolidocorinthia and included Hydra, Spetses and Kythira. It joined Corinthia to form Argolidocorinthia again in 1909. Forty years later, in 1949, the prefecture was finally separated from Corinthia, then Argolidocorinthia.
In early 1998, a flash flood carrying muddy water in the valley near Argos devastated citrus crops and other farming including pasture and other fruits. Damages were in the millions of drachmas or hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.
Greece was gradually conquered by the Ottomans during the 15th century.
Greece also has some Roman Catholics, mainly in the city of Patras and the Cyclades islands of Syros, Paros and Naxos; some Protestants and some Jews, mainly in Thessaloniki (which was once a major Jewish city until the Holocaust).
One small part of Greece, Mount Athos, is recognised by the Greek constitution as an autonomous monastic republic, although foreign relations, however, remain the prerogative of the Greek state.
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