Messenia borders on Elis to the north, Arcadia to the northeast, and Laconia to the southeast.

It borders on Laconia to the southeast, and Messenia to the southwest.

The exiles were settled by Sparta in Thyreatis, on the frontiers of Laconia and Argolis.

This incident led to German Admiral Dönitz issuing the Triton Null signal on 17 September 1942, which came to be known as the " Laconia Order "; the signal forbade submarine commanders from rescuing survivors from torpedoed ships.

* Hartenstein, discovering that Laconia was carrying Italian POWs from North Africa, decided on his own initiative to launch rescue operations, to broadcast in clear a " cease fire " message, and to inform and seek approval of his decision from Berlin.

At 22: 22, the liner, sailing under the name Laconia, transmitted the following message on the 600-meter band:

Until then, as indicated in point # 1 of the " Laconia Order ", it was common for U-boats to assist torpedoed survivors with food, water, simple medical care for the wounded, and a compass bearing to the nearest landmass ; it was extremely rare for survivors to be brought on board as space on a U-boat was barely enough for its own crew.

In Germany and Austria, ARD and ORF respectively broadcast it on 2 – 3 November 2011 under the title Laconia.

* The Laconia Incident on Uboataces. com

* The Laconia Incident on Uboat. net

With some of the largest ski mountains on the East Coast, New Hampshire's major recreational attractions include skiing, snowmobiling and other winter sports, hiking and mountaineering, observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally held in Weirs Beach near Laconia in June.

Sparta ( Doric: ; Attic: ), or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese.

Ancient Sparta was built on the banks of the Evrotas River, the main river of Laconia, which provided it with a source of fresh water.

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

Rains died from an abdominal haemorrhage in Laconia, New Hampshire, on 30 May 1967 at the age of 77.

" Sure enough, the next car to pick him up is George Staub, complete with black stitches around his neck where his head had been sewn on after being severed and wearing a button saying " I rode The Bullet at Thrill Village, Laconia.

The name " Malvasia " is generally thought to derive from Monemvasia, a Venetian fortress on the coast of Laconia, known in Italian as " Malvasia "; this port would have acted as a trading center for wine produced in the eastern Peloponnese and perhaps in some of the Cyclades.

In ancient Greek religion Artemis Caryatis was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Karyai in Laconia ; there an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatidai, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as the marble caryatids supporting the porch of the Erechtheum.

* Sparti, a city on the site of Sparta in Laconia

Tsakonian, a descendant of Laconian Doric ( Spartan ), is still spoken on the southern Argolid coast of the Peloponnese, in the modern prefectures of Arcadia and Laconia.

Laconia was the distribution center for mail and was served by the L & N Railroad, which ran on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River.

Laconia at one time boasted three general stores, one on each corner of the town square, three hotels, several millinery stores, two doctors, a funeral parlor, and a saloon.

The Laconia General Store, built 1927, is the only remaining commercial building operating on the square.

The Laconia Presbyterian Church was organized in 1874 and met in the town hall and private homes until 1880 when the present church was built on Cross St.

Another notable building in Laconia is on Main St, the Hurst House built in the Greek Revival Style by Dr. Hurst in 1869.

Two roads connect the adjoining prefectures of Messenia and Laconia: one is a tortuous mountain pass through Taygetus and the other bypasses the mountain via the Mani district to the south.

It does occur in Greek as an equivalent of Laconia and Messenia during the Roman and early Byzantine periods, mostly in ethnographers and lexica glossing place names.

Gorgophone is a central figure in the history of Sparta, having been married to two kings, Oebalus of Laconia and Perieres of Messenia, and being considered the first woman to have married twice.

The helots: / Heílôtes ) were an unfree group that formed the main population of Laconia and Messenia ( areas ruled with an iron fist by Sparta ).

Having paid their tribute, the helots could often live rather well ; the lands of Laconia and Messenia were very fertile, and often permitted two crops per year.

Administratively, Mani is now divided between the prefectures of Laconia ( Kato Mani, Mesa Mani ) and Messenia ( Exo Mani ), in the periphery of Peloponnesos, but in ancient times it lay entirely within Laconia, the district dominated by Sparta.

Subsequent books describe Corinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Achaia, Arcadia, Boetia, Phocis and Ozolian Locris.

Books 3 – 5 ( Laconia, Messenia, Elis 1 )

The mountain range lies within the prefectures of Arcadia, Laconia and Messenia.

It passes through the regional units Messenia and Laconia, on the Peloponnese peninsula.

The LHI pottery is known from the fill of the shaft graves of Lerna and the settlements of Voroulia and Nichoria ( Messenia ), Ayios Stephanos, ( Laconia ) and Korakou.

When the Dorians took over Mani, Laconia and parts of Messenia, Kotronas ' role as a major port was replaced by Gytheio.

The Maniots or Maniates () are the Greek inhabitants of the Mani Peninsula ( the middle leg of the Peloponnese south of Sparta ) located in the regional units Laconia and Messenia, in the southern Peloponnese, Greece.

The Senate agreed with Mavromichalis, and the Maniots attacked the Turks of Messenia and Laconia.

Nowadays, Mani is divided between two regioanl units: Laconia and Messenia.

Cresphontes was given Messenia and Sparta ; Aristodemus took Laconia ; and finally Temenos was given Argos.