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Extract from the Nfplio Travel Guides:
NFPLIO
(also sometimes known as Nauplia or Navplion) is a rarity amongst Greek towns. A lively, beautifully sited place, it exudes a grand, occasionally slightly faded elegance, inherited from the days when it was the fledgling capital of modern Greece. The seat of government was here from 1829 to 1834 and it was in Nfplio that the first prime minister, Kapodistrias, was assassinated by vengeful Maniot clansmen. It was here also that the Bavarian Prince Otho, put forward by the European powers to be the first King of Greece, had his initial royal residence from 1833 to 1834. Since the 1980s the town has increasingly served as a popular year-...
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