KYPARISSIA

'Kyparissia' or 'Kiparissia', rarely 'Cyparissia' (Greek: Κυπαρισσία) is a town of around 5.708 in western Messenia. The population has been steady. The town centre is situated on a road (GR-9 connected almost centrally between Pyrgos and Methone. Its distance is around 65 km north of Pyrgos, 67 km west of Kalamata via GR-9A and approximately 6 km south of the Neda River. The latitude location is about 37.2 N, and almost 25.5 E longitude. The elevation is sea level in the west, approximately 20 m downtown, and 50 m or higher in the east. There are approximately a 1,500 dwellings in the municipality. It is also the seat of the Province of Tryfilia. The town is built amphitheatrically. In the Middle Ages, it was known as 'Arkadia' (), with the second Greek alpha accented not sounding like Arcadia.

Contents

Distances

Subdivisions

Nearest places

Municipal districts

Information

History

Historical population

Persons

See also

External links

Distances

★ Athens - 255 km (old: 300 km) southwest

★ Pyrgos - 63 km south

★ Tripoli - 100 km (old: 110 km) southwest

★ Kalamata - 67 km northwest

★ Methoni - 74 km north

Subdivisions

★ Blemenianoi

★ Memi

★ Myloi

★ Pontaki

★ Terpsithea

Nearest places

★ Kalo Nero N

★ Aetos NE

★ Tripila NE

★ Filiatra S

Municipal districts

(οικισμοί: Μεμί, Μπλεμενιάνοι, Μύλοι, Ροντάκι, Τερψιθέα)
Αρμενιοί: 462

★ Armeni (pop: 462)

★ Faraklada (pop: 358)

★ 'Kyparissia' (pop: 5,708)

★ Mouriatada (pop: 125)

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★ Karvouni

★ Myro (Miron) (pop: 63)

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★ Alimaki

★ Perdikoneri (pop: 327)

★ Rahes (pop: 305)

★ Spilia (pop: 614)

★ Stasio (pop: 312)

★ Vrises (pop: 306)

★ Xirokabos (pop: 68)

Information

The city centre is nearly lined, and adjacent to the train tracks. Cyparissia has the southwesternmost railway station in Greece. The railroad station has a freight yard with its length of around 500 m making it the southwestern terminus of the OSE railway line. It is also the agricultural trade centre.
The town is almost surrounded with olive groves and trees and mixed farming. The town has churches. There is one hospital. Forests including cypresses and pines to its east. An acropolis and a fortress built during the Frankish period.
Kyparissia has schools, lyceums, a gymnasium, banks, churches including Agia Triada, a post office and squares, beaches (''paralies''). Kyparissia also includes a port to the northwest in its bay and the barriers are almost shaped like the letter G but the southwest barrier rons to the northwest from the point. The port is mainly used for cargo purposes and has no ferry services.
Downtown is nearly 200 m from the shoreline of the Ionian Sea which includes the nearby Gulf of Kyparissia (''Kyparissiakos Kolpos''), and west of the nearest mountains. The port of Kyparissia is to the northwest.
Olive production dominates its agricultural industry and by the sea, second after Zakynthos features sea turtles known as ''Caretta caretta''

History

The origin of the name dates back to the ancient times, it later entered the Roman, the Byzantine, the Frankish and the Ottoman Empires. Kyparissia did not became Greek again until the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and finally won in the late-1820s. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, several buildings were rebuilt, several neo-classical architecture remain today.

Historical population

Year	Population	Change	Municipal population	Density
1981	4,636	-	-	-
1991	5,149	+513 or +11.07%	-	74.31/km²
2001	5,708	+559 or +10.86	8,648	85.61/km²

Persons

★ Konstantinos Lamprinopoulos - politician, Mayor of Patras (August 18, 1950 - February 21, 1951), only person to run Patras that was born in Kyparissia

See also

★ List of settlements in the Messinia prefecture

External links

★ http://www.kyparissia.gr/

★ http://www.kyparissia.com/

★ Kyparissia news

★ http://www.touristorama.com/Kiparisia.html

★ Camping Kyparissia

★ Radio Kyparissia 93,6 FM

	'North:' Avlonos	'Northeast:' Tripila
'West:' ''Ionian Sea''	'Kyparissia'	'East:' Tripila
	'South:' Filiatra