Messene
Sign in to saveMessene (Greek: Μεσσήνη 𐀕𐀼𐀙 Messini), officially Ancient Messene, is a local community within the regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) of Messenia in the region (perifereia) of Peloponnese.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Ancient Messene
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Αρχαία Μεσσήνη
- Greek Dimos.type
- community
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Peloponnese
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Messenia
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Messini
- Greek Dimos.municunit
- Ithomi
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 181
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 402
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 240 02
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Messeneasklepeion.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- View of the ancient Asclepeion.
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Archaeology
- History
- Bronze Age Messana
- Reconstitution of the city by the Thebans
- The Site
- City walls
- Public buildings and monuments
- Early Christian and Byzantine monuments
- Notable people
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Messene (Greek: Μεσσήνη 𐀕𐀼𐀙 Messini), officially Ancient Messene, is a local community within the regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) of Messenia in the region (perifereia) of Peloponnese.
It is best known for the ruins of the large classical city-state of Ancient Messene. The site was founded in the Bronze Age as Ithome, an ancient city originally of Achaean Greeks which eventually came under the hegemony of the military state of Sparta with which it had a long struggle. During the latter period many inhabitants went into exile, and eventually it was destroyed by the Spartans and abandoned for some time.