Arfara is a village and a former municipality

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 in Messenia

Messenia

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, Peloponnese, Greece

Greece

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kalamata

Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...

, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 3,212 (2001).

Arfara is a town in Messinia about 15 km from Kalamata. Its name is taken from the first people who lived in Upper Arfara, the Arfaras, some of whom still live in Simi and Rodos. The town was the seat of the former Arfara municipality. Arfara has 3 small areas called Servia, Lafazaneika, Skomara and Karagiorgaika. It has a high school and an elementary school.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Arfara is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

• Agios Floros (Agios Floros, Christofilaiika)
• Agrilos
• Arfara (Arfara, Agios Konstantinos, Ano Arfara)
• Pidima
• Platy
• Stamatino (Stamatino, Pelekiti)
• Velanidia
• Vromovrisi (Vromovrisi, Ano Vromovrisi, Dremi, Krasopoula)

External Links

• Ministry of Internal Affairs, municipalities of Capodistrias plan