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426:. The confluence is on the east of Aristodimio. North of there the Pamisos is totally controlled, running between straight dikes. It is not shown on many maps; instead the Mavrouzumena is portrayed as the upper Pamisos. The communities are small. The land is given mainly to agriculture, arboriculture and viticulture. The Mavrouzumena flows from north of Ithome more or less in its natural configuration, except that it is dammed just below Valira.
454:. The word can mean either the people or the geographic unit. The municipal structure always follows the settlement pattern often with some degree of lag. Periodically it needs to be updated. A given structure becomes part of the constitutional structure of government. The structures of ancient Greece yielded to the Roman when Greece (Achaea) became a Roman province and to the Byzantine when the former
486:. The city was built so well that there was no need to reconstruct its fortifications, though they must have been repaired many times. Many alterations occurred within the walls. The ruins portrayed as those of Epaminondas' city were in fact accumulated over the centuries. One might suppose that the residences were remodelled and rebuilt many times over the same city plan.
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The archaeological concept that the grand city of
Messene was constituted as a magnificent but isolated antique show by Epaminondas, never to be altered or of much practical use thereafter, and remaining today just as it was, is more mythical than not. Epaminondas reconstituted the quasi-independent
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By far the largest community is Valira, the former seat of the former deme. As the name is not unique and is not uniquely Greek some maps label it Valira-Ithome. However, the only community ever called Ithome in the territory was what is now
Archaia Messene, the ruins of a large ancient city, which
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early in its ancient existence was called Ithome. A somewhat larger territory around it was
Messana. The village of Mavromati is located within the ancient walls. Its population constitutes the population of Archaia Messene.
310:. The lowest-level units were the same with the same populations in either system but where before 2010 they were Local Divisions, after it they were Local Communities. The municipal unit has an area of 90.428 km.
422:, the central geographic feature visible everywhere in the territory. The latter extends from west of the mountain through the valley to the east to and including the Mavrouzumena River, a tributary of the
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Demotike Enoteta of Ithomi contains the same subdivisions and populations as did the previous deme of Ithomi but the subdivisions are now Topikes Koinetetes (local communities). These are as follows:
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has been divided. Before 2011 the same hierarchy prevailed, according to Law 2539 of 1997, the
Kapodistrias Plan, except that Messenia was a nomos and Ithomi a demos, with seat in
509:[Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
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824:Lykotrafos
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211:Time zone
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965:Kourtaki
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885:Kastania
863:Petalidi
838:Neochori
814:Avramiou
810:Analipsi
785:Revmatia
782:Lampaina
747:Voutaina
738:Poulitsi
679:Androusa
675:Amfithea
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472:Messenia
404:Revmatia
386:Lampaina
370:Zerbisia
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158:Messenia
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130:Country
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789:Valyra
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304:Greece
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