Tragana
Tragana is a town in the municipality of Trifylia, Messenia in Greece. An early Bronze age cremation was found there.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 63 residents
- Description: village in Messenia, Greece
- Also known as: “Tragánais”
- Postal code: 24001
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palace of Nestor and Griffin Warrior Tomb.
Palace of Nestor
Castle
Photo: Fæ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palace of Nestor was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor's kingdom of "sandy Pylos". The palace featured in the story of the Trojan War, as Homer tells us that Telemachus: The site is the best preserved Mycenaean Greek palace discovered. Palace of Nestor is situated 3½ km northeast of Tragana.
Griffin Warrior Tomb
Tomb
The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age shaft tomb dating to around 1450 BC, near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. The grave was discovered by a research team sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and led by husband-and-wife archaeologists Jack L. Griffin Warrior Tomb is situated 3½ km northeast of Tragana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rikia and Koryfasi.
Romanos
Village
Photo: Geoandrios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Romanos or Romanou for locals is a village and a community in the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, Messenia, Greece. It is 9 km north of Pylos. It is part of the Nestoras municipal unit.
Tragana
- Category: locality
- Location: Trifylia, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.00709° or 37° 0′ 26″ northLongitude
21.66784° or 21° 40′ 4″ eastPopulation
63Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)Open location code
8G932M49+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 893010355OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
252753Wikidata ID
Q21601889
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