Geronthres is a former municipality

Communities and Municipalities of Greece

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 in Laconia

Laconia

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, Peloponnese, Greece

Greece

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

Evrotas (municipality)

Evrotas is a municipality in the Laconia peripheral unit, Peloponnese Periphery, Greece. It is named after the river Eurotas. The seat of the municipality is the town Skala.-Municipality:...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of administration was the village Geraki. The municipal population is approx. 2,000.

Dutch excavations (University of Amsterdam) point to first settlement of the acropolis hill in the (Final) Neolithic

Neolithic

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 period. In the Early Helladic period the site must have contained an administrative centre of some kind, judged by the sealing fragments that can be compared by those found in Lerna

Lerna

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. Habitation continued towards the end of the Middle Helladic period, but no Mycenaean

Mycenaean Greece

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 finds have been found yet. First signs of renewed habitation date from the Iron Age

Iron Age

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. The site is left again in the Roman

Ancient Rome

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 period.

Close to the village is a medieval kastro. In the village itself are several Byzantine churches.

Historical population

Year	Geraki	Geronthres
1981	1,644	-
1991	1,381	2,034
2001	1,341	1,959