Messenia
Messenia or Messinia is a regional unit in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, in Greece. Until the implementation of the Kallikratis plan on 1 January 2011, Messenia was a prefecture covering the same territory.
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Messenia
- Type: prefecture of Greece with 167,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Greece
- Also known as: “GR-17”, “Meseniako eskualdea”, “Messener”, “Messeni”, “Messênia”, “Messenia Prefecture”, “Messenie”, “Méssénie”, “Messéniens”, “Messínia”, “Nomos Mesenia”, “Nomos Messinias”, “Prefectura de Messenia”, “Prefectura de Messènia”, “Stenyklaros”, “Месинија”, “Месинія”, “Мессиния”, “Мессинія”, “Префектура Месенија”, “Префектура Месинија”, “მესინია”, “מסיניה”, “ميسينيا”, “메세니아”, “메시니아”, “메시니아 현”, “メシニア”, “メッシニア”, “メッセーネー”, “メッセニア”, “メッセニア県”, “美塞尼亞”, and “麦西尼亚”
- Location: Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
37.25° or 37° 15′ north
Longitude of center
21.8333° or 21° 50′ east
Population
167,000
Elevation
314 metres (1,030 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Messenia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسانية”
- Azerbaijani: “Messeniya”
- Basque: “Mesenia”
- Belarusian: “Месенія”
- Bulgarian: “Месения”
- Catalan: “Messènia”
- Catalan: “Unitat perifèrica de Messènia”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Messinías”
- Chinese: “麥西尼亞專區”
- Chinese: “麥西尼亞州”
- Chinese: “麦西尼亚专区”
- Chinese: “麦西尼亚州”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Mesanija”
- Czech: “Messénie”
- Danish: “Messenien”
- Dutch: “Messenië”
- Esperanto: “Mesenio”
- Estonian: “Messeenia”
- Finnish: “Messenia”
- Finnish: “Messenian prefektuuri”
- French: “Messénie”
- Galician: “Mesenia”
- Georgian: “მესენია”
- German: “Messenien”
- Greek: “Μεσσηνία”
- Greek: “Νομός Μεσσηνίας”
- Hebrew: “מסיניאה”
- Hebrew: “מסניה”
- Hindi: “मेस्सेनिआ”
- Indonesian: “Messinia”
- Italian: “Messenia”
- Japanese: “メッシニア県”
- Korean: “메시니아 지구”
- Korean: “메시니아현”
- Latin: “Messenia”
- Latvian: “Mesinijas nome”
- Lithuanian: “Mesenės nomas”
- Macedonian: “Месенија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Messenia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Messinía”
- Norwegian: “Messenia”
- Persian: “مسنیا”
- Polish: “Mesenia”
- Portuguese: “Messénia”
- Romanian: “Messinia”
- Russian: “Месиния”
- Russian: “Мессения”
- Serbian: “Mesenija”
- Serbian: “Месенија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mesenija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Mesenija”
- Slovak: “Messinia”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Mesenija”
- Spanish: “Mesenia”
- Spanish: “prefectura de Mesenia”
- Swedish: “Messenien”
- Swiss German: “Präfektur Messenien”
- Thai: “หน่วยภูมิภาคเมซีนีอา”
- Turkish: “Mesinya”
- Turkish: “Messinia”
- Ukrainian: “Мессенія”
- Urdu: “میسینیا”
- Waray (Philippines): “Messinia”
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