Troizinia-Methana ( el, Τροιζηνία-Μέθανα) is a municipality in the
Islands
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regional unit,
Attica
Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean S ...
,
Greece
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. The seat of the municipality is the town
Galatas.
The municipality was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the two former municipalities
Methana and
Troizina, that became municipal units.
[ Initially named ''Troizinia'', in January 2014 the municipality was renamed ''Troizinia-Methana''.]
Province
The province of Troizinia ( el, Επαρχία Τροιζηνίας) was one of the provinces
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of the Attica Prefecture, from 1964 to 1972 of Piraeus Prefecture and later again to Attica prefecture until today. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Troizinia and Poros
Poros ( el, Πόρος) is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south from the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the ...
.[ ] It was abolished in 2006.
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Municipalities of Attica
Provinces of Greece
Peloponnese
Populated places in Islands (regional unit)
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