Kyparissia
Kyparissia
Κυπαρισσία | |
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UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Postal code | 245 00 |
Area code(s) | 27610 |
Vehicle registration | ΚΜ |
Website | www.dimostrifylias.gr |
Kyparissia (
Geography
The town is situated on the
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Kyparissia is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
- Armenioi
- Faraklada
- Kyparissia (Kyparissia, Memi, Blemenianoi, Myloi, Rouzaki, Terpsithea)
- Mouriatada (Mouriatada, Karvouni)
- Myro (Myro, Alimaki)
- Perdikoneri
- Raches
- Spilia
- Stasio
- Vryses
- Xirokampos
History
The
Ancient writers took note of Cyparissia's beautiful situation upon the sides of one of the offshoots of the range of mountains, which run along this part of the Messenian coast. Upon the narrow summit of the rocks later occupied by a castle built in the Middle Ages, stood the ancient acropolis. There is no harbour upon the Messenian coast north of Pylos; but
Stephanus calls Cyparissia a city of Triphylia, and Strabo[7] also distinguishes between the Triphylian and Messenian Cyparissia, but on what authority we do not know.[8][9]
At a relatively late stage Cyparissia was a
In the Middle Ages it was called Arkadía, a name which was transferred from the interior of the peninsula to this place upon the coast. Under the Principality of Achaea, Kyparissia/Arkadia was the seat of the Barony of Arcadia, which was the last Frankish territory (except for the Venetian possessions) to fall to the Despotate of the Morea, in 1432.[12]
In 1460 Kyparissia came under Ottoman control, and remained so, with the exception of thirty years of Venetian rule, until the Greek War of Independence which began in 1821.
Kyparissia continued to bear the name Arkadia till its destruction by Ibrahim Pasha in 1825, during the Greek War of Independence and when rebuilt it resumed its ancient name Cyparissia, by which it is now called. Some remains of ancient walls may be traced around the modern castle; and below the castle on the slope of the hill, near the church of Saint George, are some fragments of columns. On the south side of the town, close to the sea-shore, a fine stream rushes out of the rock and flows into the sea; and a little above is a basin with a spring of water, near which are some stones belonging to an ancient structure. This is the ancient fountain sacred to Dionysus, which Pausanias perceived near the entrance of the city, on the road from Pylus.
Bishopric
Ciparissia once was a (late Byzantine?) bishopric, apparently a
It was nominally restored in 1933 as a
- Arthur-Alfred Lepailleur, Holy Cross Fathers(C.S.C.) (1951.03.08 – death 1952.04.12) as emeritate
- Accra (Ghana)
- Paul Etoga (1955.07.03 – 1961.06.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of Yaoundé (Cameroon)
- Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, Villavicencio (Colombia)
Historical population
Year | Community | Municipal unit |
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1981 | 4,636 | - |
1991 | 5,149 | - |
2001 | 5,708 | 8,648 |
2011 | 5,784 | 7,728 |
2021 | 5,763 | 7,088 |
Famous residents
- Dimitrios Pitsinis (1925–2003), Doctor/General Surgeon
- Konstantinos Lamprinopoulos (1893-1965), politician, Mayor of Patras
- Theodoros Roussopoulos (1963-), journalist, politician
- Kostis Palamas (1859-1943), poet
See also
References
- ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
- ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
- Scylax, p. 16 and Pomponius Mela, ii. 3.
- ^ Iliad, II, 593
- ^ p. 16.
- ^ viii. p. 349
- ^ Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 68 et seq.; Boblaye, Recherches, p. 115; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 184, et seq.
- ^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cyparissia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Raymond Janin, v. Cyparissia, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris 1956, coll. 1147-1148
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 870
- ^ Bon, Antoine (1969). La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe (in French). Paris: De Boccard. pp. 412–414.
- ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0512.htm GCatholic - Ciparissia
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cyparissia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.