Pistamata
Πιστάματα | |
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  Pistamata | |
| Coordinates: 36°53.9′N 22°59.5′E / 36.8983°N 22.9917°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Peloponnese |
| Regional unit | Laconia |
| Municipality | Monemvasia |
| Municipal unit | Zarakas |
| Elevation | 467 m (1,532 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Pistamata (Greek: Πιστάματα) is a hill village in northern Monemvasia municipality, Laconia, Greece.[1] The village is located on a small peninsula off the east coast of the Peloponnese on the road between the villages of Charakas and Lampokampos. Before the governmental reorganization of 2011, Pistamata was in the Zarakas municipality, and it remains in the Zarakas subunit.
Part of the population is of Arvanites origin being today hellenized.[2]
On 30 August 1926, Pistamata suffered a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Pistámata (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ↑ Trudgill, Peter & Tzavaras, George A. (1977). "Why Albanian-Greeks are not Albanians: Language shift in Attika and Biotia". In Giles, Howard (ed.). Language, ethnicity and intergroup relations. European Monographs in Social Psychology, issue 13. London: Academic Press. pp. 171–184. ISBN 978-0-12-283740-1.
- ↑ "M6.4 Lapas, Greece, Earthquake of 8 June 2008: Significant Earthquakes Mag >= 6.5" (PDF). United States Geological Survey.
External links
- "Photo: Pistamata Village (Πιστάματα)". Panoramio.
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