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Gargaliani (Greek Γαργαλιάνοι ( m. pl. ) ) Is a Greek town in Messinia in the Peloponnese. From 1912 to 2010 she was an independent municipality, from 1944 as a township ( dimos ). With the administrative reform of 2010, this church went up in the newly created municipality Trifylia, where she has since formed one of six municipal districts.

Location

Gargaliani is located on the east coast of the Messinian Peninsula to the Ionian Sea. The land rises to the north- east to a southern foothills of the mountain Egaleo, which reaches almost 1000 meters above sea level here. Northern borders Gargaliani to the district Filiatra, east and south of the ridge joins the community Pylos Nestor. 1.2 km west of the coast lies the uninhabited island of Proti, which also belongs to the field Gargalianis.

The largely hilly landscape is characterized by olive groves and vineyards, are found in the higher parts and woodlands.

Outline of the municipality Gargaliani

• Place Gargaliani - Δημοτική Κοινότητα Γαργαλιάνων - 5580 Gargaliani - 4980
• Agios Stefanos - Άγιος Στέφανος 27
• Vatias - Βατιάς - 12
• Vromoneri - Βρομονέρι - 36
• Kanalos - Κάναλος - 81
• Kokkinochorafa - Κοκκινοχωραφά - 5
• Langouvardos - Λαγκουβάρδος - 100
• Livartzi - Λιβάρτζι 5
• Pelekitos - Πελεκητός - 70
• Pigadia - Πηγάδια - 49
• Rikia - Ρίκια - 70
• Chochlasti - Χοχλαστή - 133
• Vrysomilos - Βρυσόμηλος - 2

• Lefki - Λεύκη - 127
• Tragana - Τραγάνα - 97

• Marathopoli - Μαραθόπολη 653
• Barla - Μπάρλα - 50
• Gefyraki - Γεφυράκι - 5
• Proti - Πρώτη - 0

Population

The Greek census of 2001, for the community identified a population of 9,083. This figure does not including the civil ceremony reported residents and real living in the community, it is too high. The community is constantly living in Gargaliani 7,609 inhabitants in, in the summer months, this number increased by continued solid locals and tourists to around 15,000.

History

Neither the establishment of the village Gargaliani yet about the etymology of his name further details are known. In Venetian cards Gurgulia emerges as the oldest name, and later it received the Italian name Gargaliano. Different traces of settlement in the municipality can be found throughout the Bronze Age. During the ancient times the present village was south a city sure is a settlement in the municipality from late antiquity to the Byzantine period, which is occupied by grave finds.

During the Greek uprisings against Ottoman rule Gargaliani was twice through marshland and Ottoman troops: During the repression of the Orlov Revolt in 1770 here encamped the Ottoman army under Pasha Mustafa on his way to Pylos, 1825 stormed Ibrahim Pasha and his Egyptian army by the municipality, destroyed the village and forced many residents to flee, some to the Ionian Islands. After the independence of Greece, the inhabitants of the town of about a thousand had fallen to 250 people. In the 19th century the town was first called Platamodas ( Δήμος Πλαταμώδους ).

During the 19th century the village was rebuilt and lived at first mainly from the traditional raisin production, which stagnated at the end of the century, which led many residents to emigrate overseas. One of the descendants of these emigrants, Dimitrios V. Briskas, the community to build a library and a gymnasium enabled later.

Culture and sights

In Gargaliani is the consummate 1715 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. In addition to some remnants of antiquity are particularly natural attractions such as the waterfall of Valta or the sulfur springs of Vromoneri places to visit.

In addition to the festival of the patron saint, St. Dionysius the Areopagite on October 3, the municipality intends to various cultural events in June of 1880 born as citizens of the city Sarandis Agapinos who fought under his combat name Telos Agras for Greece in Macedonia and in 1907 hung by Bulgarian partisans been.

Gargaliani has five elementary schools and one each middle and high school.