Pistamata (Greek: Πιστάματα) is a hill village in northern Monemvasia municipality, Laconia, Greece.[2] The village is located on a small peninsula off the east coast of the Peloponnese on the road between the villages of Charakas and Lampokampos. Before the governmental reorganization of 2011, Pistamata was in the Zarakas municipality, and it remains in the Zarakas subunit.

Pistamata
Πιστάματα
Settlement
Pistamata is located in Greece
Pistamata
Pistamata
Coordinates: 36°53.9′N 22°59.5′E / 36.8983°N 22.9917°E / 36.8983; 22.9917
CountryGreece
Administrative regionPeloponnese
Regional unitLaconia
MunicipalityMonemvasia
Municipal unitZarakas
CommunityLampokampos
Elevation
467 m (1,532 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Total31
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Part of the population is of Arvanites origin being today hellenized.[3]

On 30 August 1926, Pistamata suffered a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.[4]

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  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ Pistámata (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. ^ Trudgill, Peter & Tzavaras, George A. (1977). "Why Albanian-Greeks are not Albanians: Language shift in Attika and Biotia". In Giles, Howard (ed.). Language, ethnicity and intergroup relations. European Monographs in Social Psychology, issue 13. London: Academic Press. pp. 171–184. ISBN 978-0-12-283740-1.
  4. ^ "M6.4 Lapas, Greece, Earthquake of 8 June 2008: Significant Earthquakes Mag >= 6.5" (PDF). United States Geological Survey.
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