Figaleia ( el, Φιγαλεία) is a mountain village and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Elis Elis or Ilia ( el, Ηλεία, ''Ileia'') is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until 2011 it was ...

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. Since the administrative reform of 2011 it is a municipal unit of the municipality of

Zacharo Zacharo ( el, Ζαχάρω) is a town and municipality in western Peloponnese, Greece. Administratively, it belongs to the regional unit of Elis in West Greece. Zacharo is situated on the coast of the Gulf of Kyparissia, a part of the Ionian Sea. T ...

. The municipal unit has an area of 89.175 km². In 2011 the population was 41 for the village and 1,371 for the municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was in Nea Figaleia. Figaleia is located south of

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, west of

Megalopoli Megalopoli ( el, Μεγαλόπολη) is a town in the southwestern part of the regional unit of Arcadia (regional unit), Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located in the same site as ancient Megalopolis ( grc, Μεγαλόπολις, literally ''la ...

, north-northwest of

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, northeast of

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and southeast of Pyrgos. Figaleia is located in mountainous southern Elis. The river Neda flows through the municipal unit. The name was taken from the ancient city-state of

Phigaleia Phigalia or Phigaleia or Phigalea ( grc, Φιγαλεία or ΦιγαλέαSo in Polybius, ''The Histories (Polybius), The Histories, iv. 3. or Φιγάλεια or ΦιγαλίαSo in Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias), also known as Phialia (Φι� ...

, which was located near the present village.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Figaleia is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *Figaleia * Kryoneri (Kryoneri, Trianta) * Nea Figaleia (Nea Figaleia, Faskomilia) * Perivolia * Petralona * Stomio

References

Populated places in Elis {{WGreece-geo-stub