The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Knossos.

This event affected the operations of the German fleet, whose commanders were ordered ( the " Laconia Order ") by Admiral Karl Dönitz to stop trying to rescue civilian survivors, ushering in the subsequent unrestricted submarine warfare for the German Navy ( Admiral Nimitz testified at Admiral Dönitz's trial that the US had practiced unrestricted warfare from day one ).

With some of the largest ski mountains on the East Coast, New Hampshire's major recreational attractions include skiing, snowmobiling and other winter sports, hiking and mountaineering, observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally held in Weirs Beach near Laconia in June.

In 1904, the British School at Athens began a thorough exploration of Laconia, and in the following year excavations were made at Thalamae, Geronthrae, and Angelona near Monemvasia.

Rains died from an abdominal haemorrhage in Laconia, New Hampshire, on 30 May 1967 at the age of 77.

" Sure enough, the next car to pick him up is George Staub, complete with black stitches around his neck where his head had been sewn on after being severed and wearing a button saying " I rode The Bullet at Thrill Village, Laconia.

He died in the Peloponnese and was buried by his sons at Mistra in Laconia.

Since the advent of world cruises in 1922, by Cunard's Laconia, thousands of people have completed circumnavigations of the globe at a more leisurely pace.

The boar's hide that was preserved in the Temple of Athena Alae at Tegea in Laconia was reputedly that of the Calydonian Boar, " rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles " by the time Pausanias saw it in the second century CE.

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Cnossus.

Laconia is located at ( 38. 032174 ,-86. 085271 ).

A fort would be built at Laconia in 1746.

Laconia is located at ( 43. 550769 ,-71. 467935 ).

The franchise began play in 2010 at Robbie Mills Field in Laconia.

The six Spartan polemarchoi seem to have been on equal power to kings at expeditions outside Laconia and were usually descendants of the royal houses ( Herodotus, VII 173.

Additionally, a helot revolt in Laconia is unlikely, and Messenians would not likely have taken refuge at Cape Taenarus.

Sparta took the island from Argos early in the sixth century, and ruled it under a kytherodíkes ( kυθηροδίκης, " judge on Cythera "), in Thucydides ' time ; Athens occupied it three times when at war with Sparta ( in 456 during her first war with Sparta and the Peloponnesians ; from 426 to 410, through most of the great Peloponnesian War ; and from 393 to 387 / 386, during the Corinthian War against Spartan dominance ) and used it both to support her trade and to raid Laconia.

He established a great monastery at Paliochora ; a town grew up around it, largely populated from Laconia.

When Nabis refused, citing the Roman acceptance of his friendship at a time when he had already been in possession of the city as justification, Flamininus invaded Laconia.

Some of the earliest ( eighth century BC ) hero ( and heroine ) cults well attested by archaeological evidence in mainland Greece include shrines in Laconia to Helen and Menelaus ( the Menelaion at Therapne near Sparta ) and one to Agamemnon together with Cassandra at Mycenae, or Alexandra at Amyklai, perhaps a shrine to Odysseus in Polis Bay, Ithaca.

During its long history, the BSA has been involved in a multitude of archaeological projects, including surveys in Laconia, Boeotia, Methana ( Argolid ), and in the islands of Ithaca ( Ionian islands ), Kea, Melos, Kythera ( Cyclades ), Chios ( North Aegean ) and Crete ( Ayiopharango Survey, Ayios Vasilios Survey, Knossos Survey, Praisos Survey ) and excavations at Nea Nikomedeia, Sitagroi, Servia and Assiros ( Greek Macedonia ), Lefkandi ( Euboia ), Emborio and Kato Phana ( Chios ), Perachora ( Corinthia ), Mycenae ( Argolid ), Sparta ( Laconia ), Phylakopi ( Melos ), Keros ( Cyclades ), as well as in Crete at Knossos, Karphi, Praisos, Debla, Trapeza Cave, Atsipades Korakias, Psychro, Myrtos, Petsofas and Palaikastro.

Laconia (), also known as Lacedaemonia, is one of the regional units of Greece.

Two roads connect the adjoining prefectures of Messenia and Laconia: one is a tortuous mountain pass through Taygetus and the other bypasses the mountain via the Mani district to the south.

Each June for nine days beginning on the Saturday of the weekend before Father's Day and ending on Father's Day, the city hosts Laconia Motorcycle Week, also more simply known as ' bike week ', one of the country's largest rallies, and each winter, the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Derby.

Laconia School District has one public high school, one middle school and three elementary schools:

This attempt ended with the collapse of the institutions of Lycurgus, and one Nabis established a tyranny in Laconia.

When he advanced against Laconia, however, Antigonus found that Cleomenes had blocked all the mountain passes except for one.

The Eurotas or Evrotas ( Greek: Ευρώτας ) is the main river of Laconia and one of the major rivers of the Peloponnese, in Greece.

Belbina was one of the entry points in Laconia and was at the time disputed by Sparta and the city of Megalopolis.

Pyrrichos () is one of the oldest towns in Mani peninsula, Laconia, Greece.

Maniot towers like the one that held off the Ottomans at Skoutari, Laconia | Skoutari.

At about that time Patroclus killed Las, founder of a namesake city near Gytheio, Laconia, according to Pausanias the geographer.

This time, the Athenians set their sights on the helots of Laconia.

By this time, the Greek cities were in practice subject to the Roman Empire ' Cythera continued to exist under the Roman Empire and its Byzantine successor state for centuries ; Christianity is attested from the fourth century AD, the time of Constantine ; according to her legend, Saint Elessa came from Laconia to convert the island.

* Werner Hartenstein ( 1908 – 1943 ), war time commander of U-156, notable for the Laconia incident

He divided his time between his native Laconia and Tequesta, Florida.

The town of Peyton Place was a combination of three New Hampshire towns: Gilmanton, the village where she lived ( and which resented the notoriety ); Laconia, the only nearby town of comparable size to Peyton Place and site of Metalious ' favorite bar ; and Alton, the town where a few years previously a daughter had murdered her incestuous abusive father.

* Either of three ships named Laconia or Lakonia:

He won three American Motorcycle Association ( AMA ) nationals between 1946 and 1950, including the prestigious Laconia Classic 100 Mile road race in 1948.

* The Athenian general Conon and the Persian satrap Pharnabazus sail to mainland Greece, where they raid the coast of Laconia and seize the island of Cythera, where they leave a garrison and an Athenian governor.

In 196 BC, Roman general and pro-consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus accused the Spartan ruler, Nabis, of tyranny, took Gythium in Laconia and forced Nabis to surrender Argos.