Pistamata ( el, Πιστάματα) is a hill village in northern
Monemvasia municipality,
Laconia,
Greece
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. The village is located on a small peninsula off the east coast of the
Peloponnese on the road between the villages of
Charakas and Lampokampos. Before the governmental reorganization of 2011, Pistamata was in the
Zarakas municipality, and it remains in the Zarakas subunit.
The people of Pistamata, like many of the surrounding villages, are
Arvanites
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, that is, of
Albania
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n descent, although they have been
hellenized
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.
On 30 August 1926, Pistamata suffered a
magnitude
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7.1 earthquake.
Notes
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Populated places in Laconia
Monemvasia
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