Definitions for Messenia

Messenia Mes·se·ni·a

Spelling: [muh-see-nee-uh, -seen-y
IPA: /məˈsi ni ə, -ˈsin yə/

Messenia is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in Messenia (aeeimnss).

Definitions for Messenia

noun

  1. a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.

Examples for Messenia

And with this tragedy ends all we need to tell about the first champion of Messenia.

Traveling alone, each member of the Crypteia would inevitably cross the Taygetos [mountain] range and slip into Messenia.

Melanthus and his race were thus foreigners in Messenia and were unpopular.

Figs are also abundant, especially in Messenia and in the Cyclades.

When he was but a lad he was sent to recover certain sheep stolen by men of Messenia.

Messenia was at this time ruled by Melanthus, a descendant of Neleus.

But Messenia was doomed by the gods, and no man could avert its fate.

But in Messenia grew the wild Fig, which was also called tragos.

Thus an early exploitation of Elis and Messenia would be checked by piracy.

This unexpected resistance so frightened the Helots, that they hastily withdrew into Messenia.

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