Listed 16 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "KALAMATA Province MESSINIA" .
GERINIA (Ancient city) AVIA
For they say that the sons of Asclepius who went to Troy were Messenians, Asclepius being the son of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, not the son of Coronis, and they call a desolate spot in Messenia by the name Tricca and quote the lines of Homer, in which Nestor tends Machaon kindly, when he has been wounded by the arrow. He would not have shown such readiness except to a neighbor and king of a kindred people. But the surest warrant for their account of the Asclepiadae is that they point to a tomb of Machaon in Gerenia and to the sanctuary of his sons at Pharae.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL bellow, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
City of Free Laconians.
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
City of Messenia. Ire; afterwards called Abia.
Town of Messenia, afterwards called Abia.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
A town in Laconia, severed from Messenia and annexed to Sparta by Augustus.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
City of Messenia.
GERINIA (Ancient city) AVIA
City of Free Laconians, borders on Messenia, called Enope by Homer, tomb and worship of Machaon at G.
KALAMES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Village of Messenia.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
City of Free Laconians.
Name given to Cassandra by people of Leuctra in Laconia, her sanctuary at Amyclae.
LIMNES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Place on frontiers of Laconia and Messenia.
PEFNOS (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
Place and island of Laconia.
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
City of Free Laconians, formerly belonged to Messenia.
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
As for Hire, it is pointed out near the mountain that is near Megalopolis in Arcadia, on the road that leads to Andania.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
For, that Pherae is the home of Ortilochus, is clear from this passage: and they Telemachus and Peisistratus went to Pherae, the home of Diocles, son of Ortilochus; Hom. Od. 3.488and Pherae is in Messenia
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
There is also another Pamisus, a small torrential stream, which flows near the Laconian Leuctrum; and it was over Leuctrum that the Messenians got into a dispute with the Lacedaemonians in the time of Philip.
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