Gargalianoi () is a town and a former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Messenia,
Peloponnese
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,
Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Trifylia, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 122.680 km
2.
It is situated from the
Ionian Sea coast, north of
Pylos
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, south of
Kyparissia and west of
Kalamata. The
Greek National Road 9 (
Patras
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-
Pyrgos - Pylos) passes through the town.
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Gargalianoi is subdivided into the following communities:
*
Floka
*Gargalianoi
*
Lefki (including
Tragana)
*
Marathopoli
*
Mouzaki
*
Pyrgos
*
Valta
Famous inhabitants
* Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, who later anglicized his name to Theodore Agnew, father of United States Vice President
Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign, the first being John C. ...
["Greek Town Welcomes Agnew", by Peter Grose, ''The New York Times'', October 20, 1971, p. 2]
*
Tellos Agras, Officer of the Hellenic Army during the
Greek Struggle for Macedonia
*
Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem, born Ηλίας Γιαννόπουλος in Gargalianoi in 1952
Historical population
See also
*
List of settlements in Messenia
References
External links
gargaliani.gov.gr(in Greek)
{{Authority control
Populated places in Messenia
Trifylia