Artemisia (, before 1927: Τσερνίτσα - ''Tsernitsa''Name changes of settlements in Greece
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. The community includes the small village Agios Ioannis Theologos. It is situated at 860 m above sea level. Many of its residents live there only during the summer months. It is located in the west part of the

Taygetos The Taygetus, Taugetus, Taygetos or Taÿgetus () is a mountain range on the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece. The highest mountain of the range is Mount Taygetus, also known as "Profitis Ilias", or "Prophet Elias" (Elijah). The name is o ...

mountains on the GR-82 (Pylos - Kalamata - Sparta) between

and

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 ...

. It is 1.5 km southwest of

Alagonia Alagonia () was a town of ancient Laconia, ancient Greece, near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones, containing temples of the Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis. This town was 30 stadia distant from Gerenia. Pausanias, ''Des ...

and 13 km northeast of Kalamata.

Population

History

Until 1927, the village was named ''Tsernitsa''. From 1835 until 1912, it was part of the municipality of

. In 1912 it became an independent community, which joined the municipality of Kalamata in 1997.

References

{{Kalamata Kalamata Populated places in Messenia

Population

History

See also

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