Messene

Also known as Ancient Messini

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.

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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Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού | Αρχαία Μεσσήνη - Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος

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Wikidata facts

Elevation: 330
Image: Messeneasklepeion.jpg
Dialing code: 2724

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Commons category: Messene
described at URL: odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/gh251.jsp?obj_id=2561
postal code: 240 02
inception: 0371-00-00
native label: Αρχαία Μεσσήνη

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Contents

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

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.