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Messenia or
Messinia (/məˈsiːniə/ mə-SEE-nee-ə; Gr****: Μεσσηνία [mesiˈni.a]) is a
regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) in the
southwestern part of the...
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Messenian Wars
refers to the wars
between Messenia and
Sparta in the 8th and 7th
centuries BC as well as the 4th
century BC.
First Messenian War Second...
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Certainly conquest comprised one
aspect of helotism; thus
Messenians, who were
conquered in the
Messenian Wars of the 8th
century BC,
become synonymous in Herodotus...
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Messenian Gulf (Gr****: Μεσσηνιακός Κόλπος, Messiniakós Kólpos) is a sea that is part of the
Ionian Sea. The gulf is cir****scribed by the southern...
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Second Messenian War was a war
which occurred ca. 660–650 BC
between the
Ancient Gr****
states of
Messenia and Sparta, with
localized resistance possibly...
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Messenian Oinousses (Gr****: Μεσσηνιακές Οινούσσες, romanized: Messiniakés Inoússes) is a Gr****
island complex in the
southwest coasts of Peloponnese,...
- The
First Messenian War was a war
between Messenia and Sparta. It
began in 743 BC and
ended in 724 BC,
according to the
dates given by Pausanias. The...
- a bureaucratic,
agricultural kingdom ruled by the
wanax at Pylos. The
Messenians spoke Mycenaean Gr****, and
worshipped the Gr**** gods at
local shrines...
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Messenian Senate (Gr****: Μεσσηνιακή Σύγκλητος) was the
first government of the Gr**** Revolution. It was the
first move
towards the
creation of the...
- from the Peloponnese. To the east is the
Laconian Gulf, to the west the
Messenian Gulf. The Mani
peninsula forms a
continuation of the
Taygetos mountain...
