Methone, also called Mothone, was a town in the southwestern corner of ancient Messenia, valued in antiquity for its excellent harbour and healthy setting, standing at the tip of a rocky ridge running into the sea opposite the island of Sapientza. A small offshore rock the geographer Pausanias called Mothon sheltered its harbour entrance, and the 19th century traveler William Martin Leake found the site occupied by a tower and lantern connected by a bridge to the fortifications of the modern town of Methoni.
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1. Methone (Messenia) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 36.817, longitude 21.705
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.75, 21.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.75, 21.75
36.75 21.75 Csa
3. GeoNames: Methóni - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 257122, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.3 km)Quote, cities500 record 257122, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.3 km)
36.81973 21.70486 P PPL GR ESYE25 40 9257 2157 20 Europe/Athens
Methone (Messenia) (Wikipedia)
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