Chora
Chora is a small town in the western part of Messenia, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. With a population of 2,609 inhabitants as of 2021, it is the largest settlement in the municipality of Pylos-Nestoras and the sixth largest settlement in Messenia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,460 residents
- Description: town in Pylos-Nestor Municipality, Messinia, Greece
- Also known as: “Chora, Messenia”, “Ligoudhísta”, “Ligoudista”, and “Lygudista”
- Postal code: 24600
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Chora and Palace of Nestor.
Archaeological Museum of Chora
Museum
Photo: AlMare, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Archaeological Museum of Chora is a museum in Chora, Messenia, in southern Greece, whose collections focus on the Mycenaean civilization, particularly from the excavations at the Palace of Nestor and other regions of Messenia.
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 southwest of Chora.
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 3 km southwest of Chora.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ampelofyto and Pyrgos.
Pyrgos
Village
Pyrgos is a village in the municipality Trifylia, Peloponnese, Greece. Between 1912 and 1997, when it joined Gargalianoi, it was an independent community. Pyrgos is situated 3 km northwest of Chora.
Lefki
Village
Photo: Geoandrios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lefki is a village, which is situated 4½ km west of Chora.
Chora
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Pylos-Nestoras, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.05163° or 37° 3′ 6″ northLongitude
21.71699° or 21° 43′ 1″ eastPopulation
3,460Elevation
285 metres (935 feet)Open location code
8G933P28+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1735465727OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
259919Wikidata ID
Q15712450
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Chora” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Khóra”
- Dutch: “Chora”
- Finnish: “Chóra”
- French: “Chóra Messinías”
- French: “Chóra”
- Greek: “Chóra”
- Greek: “Λιγούδιστα”
- Greek: “Λυγούδιστα”
- Greek: “Χώρα Μεσσηνίας”
- Greek: “Χώρα Τριφυλίας”
- Greek: “Χώρα”
- Irish: “Chora”
- Japanese: “ホラ (ギリシャ)”
- Japanese: “ホラ”
- Latin: “Chora”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khóra i Messinía”
- Romanian: “Chora (messinia)”
- Romanian: “Chora (Messinia)”
- Romanian: “Chora”
- Russian: “Хора”
- Swedish: “Khóra”
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