Gargalianoi ( el, Γαργαλιάνοι) is a town and a former
municipality
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The term ''municipality ...
in
Messenia,
Peloponnese
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,
Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Trifylia, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 122.680 km
2.
It is situated from the
Ionian Sea
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coast, north of
Pylos, south of
Kyparissia and west of
Kalamata. The
Greek National Road 9 (
Patras -
Pyrgos - Pylos) passes through the town.
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Gargalianoi is subdivided into the following communities:
*
Floka
*Gargalianoi
*
Lefki
*
Marathopoli
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Mouzaki
*
Pyrgos
*
Valta
*
Tragana
Famous inhabitants
* Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, who later anglicized his name to Theodore Agnew, father of United States Vice President
Spiro Agnew["Greek Town Welcomes Agnew", by Peter Grose, ''The New York Times'', October 20, 1971, p. 2]
*
Tellos Agras, Officer of the Hellenic Army during the
Greek Struggle for Macedonia
*
Theophilos III of Jerusalem
Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem ( el, Πατριάρχης Ιεροσολύμων Θεόφιλος Γ'; ar, غبطة بطريرك المدينة المقدسة اورشليم وسائر أعمال فلسطين كيريوس كيريوس � ...
, Patriarch of Jerusalem, born Ηλίας Γιαννόπουλος in Gargalianoi in 1952
Historical population
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20100113100940/http://www.gargaliani.gov.gr/ (in Greek)
See also
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List of settlements in Messenia
{{Authority control
Populated places in Messenia