Messatida ( el, Μεσσάτιδα) is 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 ...

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...

West Greece Western Greece Region ( el, Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας, translit=Periféria Dhitikís Elládhas, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It comprises the western part of continental Greece and the northw ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

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

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, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was in

Ovrya Ovrya ( el, Οβρυά) is a town in Achaea, Greece. It is a suburb of Patras, located 6 km south of Patras city centre. It was the seat of the former municipality of Messatida. The Greek National Roads 9 (Patras - Pyrgos) and 33 (Patras ...

. It is located south of Patras city centre, and stretches from the urbanized plains near the

Gulf of Patras The Gulf of Patras ( el, Πατραϊκός Κόλπος, ''Patraikós Kólpos'') is a branch of the Ionian Sea in Western Greece. On the east, it is closed by the Strait of Rion between capes Rio, Greece, Rio and Antirrio, near the Rio-Antirrio b ...

to the

Omplos Omplos ( el, Ομπλός) is a mountain in Achaea, Greece. It rises steeply from the coastal plains around Patras to 926 m elevation. It is separated from the higher mountain Panachaikos by the valley of the river Glafkos. The summit is 2 k ...

hills in the east. The population was 13,852 in 2011. It has an area of 66.366 km². Messatida was named after the ancient Achaean town

Mesatis Mesatis ( grc, Μεσάτις) was a town of ancient Achaea, in the neighbourhood of Patrae. It is said to have been founded by the Ionians, when they occupied the country. After their expulsion,, the Achaean hero Patreus withdrew the inhabitants fr ...

, according to local legend the place where

Dionysus In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; grc, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre. The Romans ...

was reared.

Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to: *Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium'' *Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC *Pausanias of Sicily, physician of th ...

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Population history

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Messatida is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *

Kallithea Kallithea (Greek: Καλλιθέα, meaning "beautiful view") is a district of Athens and a municipality in south Athens regional unit. It is the eighth largest municipality in Greece (96,118 inhabitants, 2021 census) and the fourth biggest i ...

(Kallithea, Ano Kallithea) * Krini (Krini, Agios Kostantinos) * Krystallovrysi *

* Petroto (Petroto, Mavromandila, Agia Paraskevi) *

Saravali Saravali ( el, Σαράβαλι) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Messatida, Achaea, Greece. The community is located at the southeastern edge of the agglomeration of Patras. The community consists of the villages Saravali, ...

(Saravali, Agios Stefanos,

Demenika Demenika ( el, Δεμένικα) is a village/suburb in the municipality of Patras, Achaea, Greece. It lies south of the city centre, south of the river Glafkos. It is part of the community of Saravali within the municipal unit of Messatida. ...

, Kefalovryso, Bakari) * Thea (Thea, Lygies, Pavlokastro)

Sport Clubs

Fostiras Ovrias FC Fostiras Football Club ( el, Α.Π.Ο. Φωστήρας Ταύρου) is a Greek football club based in Tavros, a suburb of Athens, Greece. They play in the Gamma Ethniki, the fourth tier of the Greek football league system. They played Alpha Et ...

(football) *Achilleas Ovrias (football) *Atlas Ovrias (football) *Milon Ovrias (volleyball) *Phoenix Ovrias (basketball) *Achaios Saravali (football & basketball) *Galini Demenika (basketball, ping pong, baseball, football & softball) *Krini 97' (basketball) *A.O. Krini (football) *A.O. Thea (football) *A.O. Kalithea (football) *Galaxias Demenika (basketball) *Ikaros Petroto (football)

References

External links

GTP - MessatidaGTP - Ancient Messatis
{{Patras div Populated places in Achaea