Location information

By the Spartans in 743 B.C.

During the 1st Messenian War the Spartans seized the town and destroyed it killing all the Messenians. Amphea was probably located to the N of Ithome, at the fords from ancient Messenia to Laconia, to the E of the village Katsarou or near the village Tryfa (Papyrus Larousse Britannica Encyclopedia).

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