Metaxata

Metaxata Μεταξάτα
Location
Metaxata
Coordinates	38°7′N 20°32′E / 38.117°N 20.533°E / 38.117; 20.533Coordinates: 38°7′N 20°32′E / 38.117°N 20.533°E / 38.117; 20.533
Government
Country:	Greece
Region:	Ionian Islands
Regional unit:	Kefalonia
Municipality:	Kefalonia
Municipal unit:	Leivathos
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Village
- Population:	493
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Auto:	KE

Metaxata (Greek: Μεταξάτα) is a village in the southern part of the island of Kefalonia. It has a population of 493. It is part of the municipal unit of Leivathos.

Subdivision

The municipal district has one settlement, the other subdivisions even though they are not listed since they have no offices are:

• Kaligata
• Kourkoumelata

Nearest places

The nearest places are ordered clockwise

• Travliatata, northeast
• Keramies, east
• Kourkoumelata, south
• Svoronata, west-southwest
• Lakithra, west

Geography

The area around Metaxata are surrounded by farmlands that are mainly pastures, fruits, vegetables, groves and some others as well as some forests. The hills dominate the west and the east. Metaxata forms a junction with two roads, one linking west to Lakithra and Argostoli, the island capital and east to Keramies and the southeastern villages of Livathos and another linking north to Travliatata and the Argostoli-Poros Road and another way to Kourkoumelata and the airport.

Information

Metaxata was founded by the Byzantine Markantonio Metaxa which came from an area then known as Fratzata (Φρατζάτα) after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. From the village produced some revolutionists Andreas and Konstantinos Metaxas which had the power of Kefalonia and participated in the Greek War of Independence in the Peloponnese in the 1820s. In the village Lord Byron live for a while and wrote some poems about the area. Metaxata did not join Greece as well as the rest of the Ionian Islands until the 1860s. Metaxata was struck by an earthquake (see August 1953 earthquake) that occurred on August 1953 that destroyed every stone-built house in Metaxata that it took until the late-1950s to rebuilt. Metaxata was never the same later as the population was emigrated to other parts of the world and later, electricity, communications and running water was added to its houses and in the 1970s, became linked with asphalt. Today in the central square, the village has its statues after them.

Population

Year	Population
1981	367
1991	357
2001	493

External links

• Metaxata on GTP Travel Pages (in English and Greek)

See also

• List of settlements in the Kefalonia prefecture

References