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During the 1st Messenian War the Spartans seized the town and destroyed it killing all the Messenians. Amphea was probably located to the N of Ithome, at the fords from ancient Messenia to Laconia, to the E of the village Katsarou or near the village Tryfa (Papyrus Larousse Britannica Encyclopedia).
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