All the Peloponnesus is included in the Achaean League, which attains its apogee. 190.

The scenery of Dutch history has episodes as stirring and instructive as those of any civilized people since history began; but it reached its dramatic and moral apogee when the independence of the United Netherlands was acknowledged by Spain.

The Catholic kings marked the apogee of national strength, but it was the beginning also of its decadence.