Messatida () is 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' ...

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek language, Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaḯa'', ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwest ...

West Greece Western Greece Region (, ) is one of the thirteen Modern regions of Greece, administrative regions of Greece. It comprises the western part of Central Greece (geographic region), continental Greece and the northwestern part of the Peloponnese pen ...

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Patras Patras (; ; Katharevousa and ; ) is Greece's List of cities in Greece, third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaiko ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was in Ovria.Οβριά (Αχαΐας)
EETAA local government changes It is located south of Patras city centre, and stretches from the urbanized plains near the

Gulf of Patras The Gulf of Patras (, ''Patraikós Kólpos'') is a branch of the Ionian Sea in Western Greece. On the east, it is closed by the Strait of Rion between capes Rio and Antirrio, near the Rio-Antirrio bridge, that is the entrance of the Gulf of C ...

to the

Omplos Omplos () is a mountain in Achaea, Greece. It rises steeply from the coastal plains around Patras to 926 m elevation. It is separated from the higher mountain Panachaikos by the valley of the river Glafkos. The summit is 2 km west of the vi ...

hills in the east. It has an area of 66.366 km². Messatida was named after the ancient Achaean town Mesatis, according to local legend the place where

Dionysus In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, myth, Dionysus (; ) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus ( or ; ...

was reared. Pausanias ''Description of Greece'' 7.18

Population history

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Messatida is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *

Kallithea Kallithea (Greek language, Greek: Καλλιθέα, meaning "beautiful view") is a suburb in Athens#Athens Urban Area, Athens agglomeration and a municipality in South Athens (regional unit), south Athens regional unit. It is the eighth larges ...

(Kallithea, Ano Kallithea) * Krini (Krini, Agios Kostantinos) * Krystallovrysi * Ovria * Petroto (Petroto, Mavromandila, Agia Paraskevi) *

Saravali Saravali () is an important village and community in the municipal unit of Messatida, Patras, Achaea, Greece. The community is located at the southeastern edge of the agglomeration of Patras. The community consists of the villages Saravali, Agio ...

(Saravali, Agios Stefanos, Demenika, Kefalovryso, Bakari) * Thea (Thea, Lygies, Pavlokastro)

Sport Clubs

* Fostiras Ovrias FC (football) *Achilleas Ovrias (football) *Atlas Ovrias (football) *Milon Ovrias (volleyball) *Phoenix Ovrias (basketball) *Achaios Saravali (football & basketball) *Galini Demenika (basketball, ping pong, baseball, football & softball) *Krini 97' (basketball) *A.O. Krini (football) *A.O. Thea (football) *A.O. Kalithea (football) *Galaxias Demenika (basketball) *Ikaros Petroto (football)

References

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{{Patras div Populated places in Achaea Patras