Methana
The peninsula is the northwesternmost of the arc of the Aegean islands of which the active volcanic areas are Methana, Milos, Santorini and Nisyros.A mountain ridge is founded in the west and is about 3 km (2 mi) long with a stream in the middle and a cliff in the south.Many ancient sites were identified through the archaeological survey conducted in the 1980s by the University of Liverpool in association with the British School at Athens.The Acropolis Palaiokastro is located near the village of Vathy but the main port is at Methana, also called Arsinoe in Ptolemaic times, with a fort on the islet of Nisaki.The name of the town appears to be in the so-called "Aegean List" from the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III in Egypt, dating to 14th century BCE, where it is recorded as m-dj-n-ij.[5] Methana (Ancient Greek: τὰ Μέθανα,[6][7] tà Méthana), Methone (Μεθώνη,[8][9] Methṓnē), or Methene (Μεθήνη,[10] Methḗnē) was in the territory of Troezen.In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides tells of an Athenian expeditionary force under Nicias that after defeating Corinth (in 425 BC) built a wall across the isthmus to cut the Methana peninsula off from the mainland.
Methana (genus)Municipal unitGreeceAdministrative regionAtticaRegional unitIslandsMunicipalityTroizinia-MethanaTime zonePostal codeArea code(s)PeloponnesevolcanicMethana VolcanopeninsulaKounoupitsaKypseliMegalochoriKameni ChoraStraboPausaniasAegeanSantoriniNisyrosSaronic gulfETH ZürichArgolisCorinthiaSaronic IslandsAeginaSalamisMichael DeffnerthroneAcropolis PalaiokastroMycenaeanMortuary Temple of Amenhotep IIIAncient GreekTroezenHistory of the Peloponnesian WarThucydidesNiciasHellenisticHermesHeraclesSlavic invasionsArvanitesGreek War of IndependenceCharles FabvierGiorgos BatisLina NikolakopoulouList of settlements in AtticaGovernment GazetteW. H. S. JonesPerseus Digital LibraryGeographicaIsaac CasaubonDiodorus SiculusBibliotheca historicaPtolemyThe Geographypublic domainSmith, WilliamDictionary of Greek and Roman GeographyGlobal Volcanism ProgramSmithsonian InstitutionTroizinaAno FanariGalatasMorea revolt of 1453–1454ArvanitikaFustanellaPavlos KountouriotisTheodoros PangalosAlexandros DiomidisGeorgios KountouriotisAntonios KriezisAthanasios MiaoulisDimitrios VoulgarisDiomidis KyriakosOdysseas AndroutsosLaskarina BouboulinaSofoklis DousmanisViktor DousmanisAlexandros KontoulisDimitrios KriezisNikolaos KriezotisGeorgios SachtourisAndrea MiaoulisAndreas A. MiaoulisAndreas D. Miaoulis (1819)Andreas D. Miaoulis (1869)Dimitrios MiaoulisDimitrios D. MiaoulisEmmanouil MiaoulisEmmanouil A. MiaoulisIoannis MiaoulisIoannis A. MiaoulisNikolaos MiaoulisDimitris PlapoutasEmmanouil TombazisIakovos TombazisAnastasios TsamadosMeletis VasileiouNikolaos VotsisYannis GourasLazaros KountouriotisAntonios MiaoulisAthanasios N. MiaoulisIoannis OrlandosSpyridon MercourisTheodoros Pangalos (politician)Ieronymos II of AthensTasos NeroutsosVangelis LiapisAristeidis KolliasPanayotis KoupitorisAnastas KulluriotiEleni Boukoura-AltamouraAnastasios OrlandosAndreas KriezisNikolaos VokosGerasimos Vokos