Aethaea or Aithaia () was a town of

ancient Messenia Messenia () was an ancient district of the southwestern Peloponnese, more or less overlapping the modern Messenia region of Greece. To the north it had a border with Elis along the Neda river. From there the border with Arcadia ran along the to ...

, the inhabitants of which revolted from

Sparta Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the Evrotas Valley, valley of Evrotas (river), Evrotas rive ...

with the Thuriatae in 464 BCE. Its site is unlocated.

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Populated places in ancient Messenia Former populated places in Greece Lost ancient cities and towns {{AncientMessenia-geo-stub