Aetos ( el, Αετός meaning "

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") is a village and a former

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Trifylia Trifylia ( el, Τριφυλία) is a municipality in the Messenia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Kyparissia. The municipality has an area of 616.019 km2. It was named after the ancient Triphylia regi ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 94.850 km². In 2011 its population was 360 for the village and 1,915 for the municipal unit. The seat of the former municipality was in

Kopanaki Kopanaki ( el, Κοπανάκι) is a town in northwestern Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality of Aetos and now it belongs to the municipality of Trifylia. Agriculture, specifically olive farming, is the ma ...

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Aetos is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *Aetos * Agrilia Trifylia (Nea Agrilia) * Artiki * Glykorrizi * Kamari * Kefalovrysi (Kefalovrysi, Tsertsaiika) * Kryoneri *

(Kopanaki, Agios Dimitrios, Rizochori) * Monastiri * Polythea * Sitochori

References

External links

Statistics of Aetos from the Messenia's/Messinia's official website
Populated places in Messenia {{Peloponnese-geo-stub