Messenia (ancient region)
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Messenia or Messinia (Greek: Μεσσηνία) was an ancient district of the southwestern Peloponnese, more or less overlapping the modern Messenia region of Greece. To the north it had a border with Elis along the Neda river. From there the border with Arcadia ran along the tops of Mount Elaeum and Mount Nomia and then through foothills of Taygetus. The eastern border with Laconia went along the Taygetus ridge up to the Koskaraka river, and then along that river to the sea, near the city of Abia.
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Messinia
Μεσσηνία | |
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Region of Ancient Greece | |
Location | Peloponesse |
Major cities | Messene |
Dialects | Doric |
Ancient Messenia descended continuously without change of name and with little change of territory to the modern Regional Unit of Greece of the same name.