Listed 18 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "MESSINIA Prefecture PELOPONNISOS" .
AGIOS FLOROS (Village) ARFARA
(Paus. 4,31,4). The spring of Pamisos is in Agios Floros (Ekdot. Ath., Pausanias' Periegisis, vol. 3, p.109, note 2).
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Not far from Pharae is a grove of Apollo Carneius and a spring of water in it.
KARNASSION (Ancient city) MELIGALAS
Facing the plain is a site anciently called Oechalia, in our time the Carnasian grove (Paus. 4,33,4). Today we locate the Carnasian grove in the area of Kalliroi and Ichalia.
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
River of Messenia (Paus. 4,34,4).
KYPARISSIIS (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
Cyparisseeis is in the neighborhood of the Macistia of earlier times (when Macistia still extended across the Neda), but it is no longer inhabited, as is also the case with Macistum. But there is another, the Messenian Cyparissia; it, too, is now called by the same name as the Macistian and in like manner, namely, Cyparissia, in the singular number and in the feminine gender, whereas only the river is now called Cyparisseeis.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
Water-basin in Messene.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Acritas (Akritas: C. Gallo), the most southerly promontory in Messenia. (Strab. p. 359; Paus. iv. 34. § 12 ; Ptol. iii. 16. § 7; Plin. iv. 5. s. 7; Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 443.)
NEDON (River) MESSINIA
Tributary of Neda.
STENYKLAROS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
In Messenia. It is the plain of Meligalas of today.
This spot, the Boar's Tomb, lies in Stenyclerus of Messenia, and there, as is said, Heracles exchanged oaths with the sons of Neleus over the pieces of a boar.
TETRAZIO (Mountain) IRA
Mountains in Arcadia.
THOURIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
A river called Aris flows past the town in the plain.
TRIFYLIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
From this Pylus and Lepreum to the Messenian Pylus and Coryphasium (a fortress situated on the sea) and to the adjacent island Sphagia, the distance is about four hundred stadia; from the Alpheius seven hundred and fifty; and from Chelonatas one thousand and thirty. In the intervening space are both the temple of the Macistian Heracles and the Acidon River. The Acidon flows past the tomb of Iardanus and past Chaa city that was once in existence near Lepreum, where is also the Aepasian Plain. It was for the possession of this Chaa, some say, that the war between the Arcadians and Pylians, of which Homer tells us, arose in a dispute; and they think that one should write, "Would that I were in the bloom of my youth, as when the Pylians and the Arcadians gathered together and fought at the swift-flowing Acidon, beside the walls of Chaa" --instead of "Celadon" and "Pheia"; for this region, they say, is nearer than the other to the tomb of Iardanus and to the country of the Arcadians.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
Cyparissia is on the Triphylian Sea, and so are Pyrgi, and the Acidon and Neda Rivers. At the present time the stream of the Neda is the boundary between Triphylia and Messenia (an impetuous stream that comes down from Lycaeus, an Arcadian mountain, out of a spring, which, according to the myth, Rhea, after she had given birth to Zeus, caused to break forth in order to have water to bathe in); and it flows past Phigalia, opposite the place where the Pyrgetans, last of the Triphylians, border on the Cyparissians, first of the Messenians; but in the early times the division between the two countries was different, so that some of the territories across the Neda were subject to Nestor--not only Cyparisseeis, but also some other parts on the far side.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
A district of Triphylia in Epirus. (Liv. xxxii. 13.) The names of Triphylia and
Melotis, in connection with Epirus, occur only in Livy. Leake supposes that Melotis,
which name indicates a sheep-feeding district, was probably the pastoral highlands
around Ostanitza, on the borders of Molossis and Atintania. (Northern Greece,
vol. iv. pp. 101, 119)
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
Twenty stades off the road is the fountain of Plataniston, the water of which flows out of a broad plane tree, which is hollow inside. The breadth of the tree gives the impression of a small cave; from it the drinking water flows to Corone (Paus. 4,34,4).
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