Lykissa is a small village on the mountain of Mount Lykodimo in

Messenia Messenia or Messinia ( ; ) is a regional unit (''perifereiaki enotita'') in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, in Greece. Until the implementation of the Kallikratis plan on 1 January 2011, Messenia was a prefecture (''nomos' ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. The settlement was founded during the Greek revolution by Ioannis Pantazopoulos.Πανταζόπουλος, Πέτρος, Λυκίσσα - Ένα ιστορικό χωριουδάκι του Λυκοδήμου (ανάτυπο, Καλαμάτα 2000), σ. 50. It is part of the municipal unit

Petalidi Petalidi () is a village and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Messini, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 104.970 km ...

, which is part of the municipality

Messini Messini (, before 1867: Νησί ''Nisi'') is a municipal unit (''dimotiki enotita'') and the seat town (''edra'') of the municipality (''dimos'') of Messini within the regional unit (''perifereiaki enotita'') of Messenia in the region (''perifere ...

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Populated places in Messenia Messini {{Peloponnese-geo-stub