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Kyparissia Κυπαρισσία
Location
Kyparissia
Coordinates	37°14′N 21°40′E / 37.233°N 21.667°E / 37.233; 21.667Coordinates: 37°14′N 21°40′E / 37.233°N 21.667°E / 37.233; 21.667
Location within the prefecture
Government
Country:	Greece
Periphery:	Peloponnese
Prefecture:	Messinia
Mayor:	George Sabaziotis
Population statistics (as of 2001[1])
City
- Population:	8,648
- Area:	101.0 km2 (39 sq mi)
- Density:	86 /km2 (222 /sq mi)
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Elevation (center):	52 m (171 ft)
Postal:	245 00
Telephone:	27610
Auto:	ΚΜ
Website
www.kyparissia.gr

Kyparissia (Greek: Κυπαρισσία) is a town of around 5.708 in western Messenia. The population has been steady. The town centre is situated on a road (GR-9 connected almost centrally between Pyrgos and Methone. Its distance is around 65 km south of Pyrgos, 67 km west of Kalamata via GR-9A and approximately 16 km south of the Neda River. The elevation is sea level in the west, approximately 20 m downtown, and 50 m or higher in the east. There are approximately a 1,500 dwellings in the municipality. It is also the seat of the Province of Trifyllia. The town is built amphitheatrically. In the Middle Ages, it was known as Arkadia, with the second Greek alpha accented not sounding like Arcadia.

[edit] Distances

• Athens - 255 km (old: 300 km) southwest
• Pyrgos - 63 km south
• Tripoli - 100 km (old: 110 km) southwest
• Kalamata - 67 km northwest
• Methoni - 74 km north

[edit] Nearest places

• Zacharo, northwest
• Agia Lagana, north
• Kalo Nero, north
• Aetos, northeast
• Tripila, northeast
• Filiatra, south

[edit] Municipal districts

• Armenioi (pop: 462)
• Faraklada (pop: 358)
• Kyparissia (Kyparissia, Memi, Blemenianoi, Myloi, Rouzaki, Terpsithea, total pop: 5,708)
• Mouriatada (Mouriatada, Karvouni, total pop: 125)
• Myro (Myro, Alimaki, total pop: 63)
• Perdikoneri (pop: 327)
• Raches (pop: 305)
• Spilia (pop: 614)
• Stasio (pop: 312)
• Vryses (pop: 306)
• Xirokampos (pop: 68)

Kyparissia

[edit] Information

The city centre is nearly lined, and adjacent to the train tracks. Cyparissia has the southwesternmost railway station in Greece. The railroad station has a freight yard with its length of around 500 m making it the southwestern terminus of the OSE railway line. It is also the agricultural trade centre.

The town is almost surrounded with olive groves and trees and mixed farming. The town has churches. There is one hospital. Forests including cypresses and pines to its east. An acropolis and a fortress built during the Frankish period.

Kyparissia has schools, lyceums, a gymnasium, banks, churches including Agia Triada, a post office and squares, beaches (paralies). Kyparissia also includes a port to the northwest in its bay and the barriers are almost shaped like the letter G but the southwest barrier rons to the northwest from the point. The port is mainly used for cargo purposes and has no ferry services.

Downtown is nearly 200 m from the shoreline of the Ionian Sea which includes the nearby Gulf of Kyparissia (Kyparissiakos Kolpos), and west of the nearest mountains. The port of Kyparissia is to the northwest.

Olive production dominates its agricultural industry and by the sea, second after Zakynthos features sea turtles known as Caretta caretta

[edit] History

The origin of the name dates back to the ancient times, it later entered the Roman, the Byzantine, the Frankish and the Ottoman Empires. Kyparissia did not became Greek again until the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and finally won in the late-1820s. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, several buildings were rebuilt, several neo-classical architecture remain today.

[edit] Historical population

[edit] Persons

• Dimitrios Pitsinis-Doctor/General Surgeon (1925-2003)
• Konstantinos Lamprinopoulos - politician, Mayor of Patras (August 18, 1950 - February 21, 1951), only person to run Patras that was born in Kyparissia
• Theodoros Roussopoulos - journalist, politician.

[edit] See also

• List of settlements in the Messinia prefecture

[edit] References

1. ^ "Δείτε τη Διοικητική Διαίρεση" (in Greek). Hellenic Interior Ministry. www.ypes.gr. http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/D_diairesi.xls. Retrieved 2009-09-09. 

[edit] External links

• Official town website
• kyparissia. City's guide
• Σύλλογος Πολυτέκνων Τριφυλίας