Triphylia

Triphylia ( ancient Greek Τριφυλία Triphylia , land of the three tribes') is the name of an ancient landscape on the west coast of the Greek peninsula Peloponnese . According to Polybius , the name is derived from Triphylos, a son of Arkas.

Triphylia bordered on Elis in the north, the Lykaion Mountains formed the border with Arcadia in the east, and Triphylia extended to the Aulon valley in the south, where it bordered on Messinia . To the west the landscape opened up to the Gulf of Kyparissia.

The most important communities in Triphylia were Samikon, Lepreon, Hypana, Typanai, Pyrgos, Aipion, Bolax, Stylangion and Phrixa.

The area was often disputed between its more powerful neighbors. In the 3rd century BC In BC Triphylia was in the possession of the Eleatons, who were allied with the Aitolian League . During the so-called Social War their opponents, who moved Achaiische Bund and the Macedonians under Philip V in the Peloponnese before and conquered a number Eleatic bases. Triphylia came under the direct rule of Macedonia, which gained a kind of exclave and was able to hold it until the intervention of the Romans , who passed Triphylia on to the Achaean League after the victory over Philip and later incorporated it into their province of Achaia .

The modern Greek name Trifylia has been used for various local authorities since the founding of modern Greece. From 1899 to 1909 there was a prefecture of Trifylia, which included the south of today's Elis (province of Olymbiada) and the north of the Messinian west coast (province of Trifylia). The province of Trifylia then continued to exist in the Prefecture of Messenia until 1997; since 2011, with a few minor changes, the area has formed the municipality of Trifylia .

Today, the original ancient landscape belongs to the Elis regional district of the Western Greece region .