Thuria, of which place, Pausanias' tells us, that it was - William Martin Leake, Travels in the Morea: with a map and plans, 1830, p. 360 nn. Thuria was a city in Messenia, placedon the Stenykleros plain, west of the range of Taygetos Mountain, between the rivers: Aris and Nedon.
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Thuria, of which place, Pausanias' tells us, that it was - William Martin Leake, Travels in the Morea: with a map and plans, 1830, p. 360 nn. Thuria was a city in Messenia, placedon the Stenykleros plain, west of the range of Taygetos Mountain, between the rivers: Aris and Nedon.
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Extensive necropolis
Finds exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Messinia (Kalamata)
The theater dates -according to a first estimate- to the early Hellenistic times, it has an orientation to the west, overlooking the fertile plain of Messinia.