Tegea

There is also an ancient Tegea near Kissamos in the island of Crete, see Tegea, Crete

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Statistics
Prefecture:	Arcadia
Province:	Mantineia
Seat:	Stadio
Location:
Population: (2001)  - Total  - Density¹  - Rank	4,100  -/km²
Communes:	14
Elevation:  -lowest:  -centre:	around 600 m 650 m(centre) around 700 m?
Postal code:	220 12
Area/distance code:	11-30-2710 (030-2710) -55
Municipal code :	0518
Car designation:	TP
Name of inhabitants:	Tegean sing., -s pl.

Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greek containing the Temple of Athena Alea.

Tegea is now located within the modern town of Alea, also it was referred to as Piali (not to be confused with Palaia Episkopi). Alea is located about 10 kilometers southeast of Tripoli. It is also a municipality whose seat is Stadio.

The province of Megalopoli is bordered to the west and the province of Kynouria is bordered to the east.

Contents

1 Nearest places 2 Communities 3 Historical population 4 External links 5 See also:

Nearest places

• Alea
• Stadio

Communities

• Alea
• Episkopi
• Garea
• Kamari
• Kerasitsa , where the politician Gregoris Lambrakis was born in 1912
• Lithovounia
• Magoula
  • Giokareika (pop: 51)
• Manthyrea
• Mavriki
• Psili Vrysi
  • Bouzaneika (pop: 45)
• Rizes
• Stadio
  • Agios Sostis
  • Akra (pop: 42)
• Tziva
• Vouno

Historical population

Year	Municipal population	Change
1981	-	-
1991	4,539	-
2001	4,100	-439/9.67%

External links

• Tegea Information: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/siteindex?lookup=Tegea
• Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea: http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum/Temples/Tegea.htm
• GTP - Ancient Tegea
• GTP - Municipality of Tegea
• GTP - Alea, the present name of Tegea

	North: Korythios and Tripoli
West: Valtesio and Tripoli (NW)	Tegea	East: North Kynouria
	South: Skyritida

See also:

• Communities of Arcadia