Everything about Methana totally explained
Methana (
Greek: Μέθανα), can refer to a town, a
municipality, a
volcano (the
Methana Volcano), and a
peninsula located in the
Piraeus Prefecture, in
Greece in the eastern part of the
Peloponnese peninsula, in the district of
Loutropolis Methana (Λουτρούπολη fr. λουτρό
loutros spring + πόλη
poli city). The town (pop. 1,148 in 2001) is located north of the road connecting to the rest of the Peloponnese and Galatas. It is located east of
Ligouri, northeast of
Kranidi, north of
Ermioni and northwest of
Galatas and
Poros. The highest point is 740 m (Helona Mountain). The municipality has a land area of 50.161 km² and a 2001 census population of 2,057 inhabitants. Its largest other settlements besides the town of Methana are Vathý (pop. 170), Megalochóri (167), Kounoupítsa (136), Kypséli (94), Ágioi Theódoroi (75), and Dritsaíika (64).
Communities and subdivisions (as links)
Historical population
| Year |
Communal population |
Change (town) |
Municipal population |
Density |
| 1981 |
1,035 |
- |
- |
- |
| 1991 |
1,054 |
+19/+1.84% |
2,056 |
41.0/km² |
| 2001 |
1,148 |
+94/+8.92% |
2,057 |
41.0/km² |
Half of the entire peninsula's population lives in Methana town. Methana has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church, a post office, a port which is located to the east, banks, hotels, taverns and a square (
plateia). The residential area is within the south-eastern part of the mountain "Tsonakas". Methana has a famous sulfur spa and springs.
Volcanic activity
The peninsula is entirely of
volcanic origin and contains over 30 volcanic eruption centers. The last volcanic eruption occurred near present-day
Kameni Chora in
230 BC and a submarine volcano erupted in 1700. Famous writers such as
Ovid,
Strabo and
Pausanias reported the last volcanic eruption in Methana. The peninsula is the northwesternmost of the arc of the
Aegean islands of which the active volcanic areas are Methana,
Milos,
Santorini and
Nisyros. In the future, Methana (and the area of the
Saronic gulf) may expect other volcanic eruptions.
Geography
Since
1991, the peninsula has been investigated by the team of
ETH Zürich geologically and cartographically. From this, a topographical map of the entire peninsula at a scale of 1:25,000 was made. An interactive was created and is on the worldwide web. Also a rich photographic archive with about 10.000 color slides has been produced (see links below).
The panorama of the northeastern part of
Argolis, southeastern and eastern
Corinthia along with the southern part of the
Attica peninsula and the
Saronic Islands of
Aegina and
Salamis along with a smaller one and the mountains of the eastern tip of the neighboring peninsula.
Much of the municipality are mountainous and bushy and grassy. The mountain range covers the central part of the peninsula and has a small ridge north of the seat. The residential area is within the sea. The pastures are around Methana. A mountain ridge is founded in the west and is about 3 km long with a stream in the middle and a cliff in the south.
History
The earliest known settlement (near the village of Vathy) dates from
1500–
1300 BC. Many ancient sites were identified through the archaeological survey conducted in the 1980s by the University of Liverpool in association with the British School at Athens. The
Acropolis Palaiokastro is located near the village of
Vathy. The fortress is in
Kypseli at the coast
Akropolis Oga at the principal pace of
Nisaki (Νησάκι, meaning little island). A
Mycenaean settlement was excavated by
Helene Konstolakis-Jiannopoulou in
1990 along with the chapel of Agios Konstantinos and Elenis. Selected artifacts can be visited in the museums of Poros island and in Piraeus. This site dates between
1500 and
1300 BC. In the
Hellenistic period, the peninsula became one of the Ptolemaic bases in the Aegean when it was renamed Arsinoe.
Persons
Giorgos Batis (1885-1967) singerFurther Information
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