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| Prefecture: | Laconia |
| Province: | Province of Lacedaemonia |
| Location: Latitude: Longitude: | 36.992/36°59'26' N lat. 22.706/22°42'19 E long. |
| Population: ( 1991) - Total - Density¹ - Rank | -1,381 -36.29/km² |
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| Elevation: -lowest: -centre: -highest: | sea level 331 m(centre) |
| Postal code: | 230 58 |
| Area/distance code: | 11-30- 27310 -7 (030-27310-7) |
| Municipal code : | 3204 |
| Car designation: | AK
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Geraki ( Greek, Modern: Γεράκι, Ancient/ Katharevousa: -ion) is a village in the evrotas plain, southwest of Sparta, Lakonia, Greece. The municipal population dimarcheíon. is approx. 1,000 inhabitants. The ancient name is Geronthrae and this is also the name of the municipality.
Dutch excavations ( University of Amsterdam) point to first settlement of the acropolis hill in the (Final) Neolithic period. In the Early Helladic period the site must have contained an administrative centre of some kind, judged by the sealing fragments that can be compared by those found in LernaIn classical Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. It is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity when Her. Habitation continued towards the end of the Middle HelladicThe early history of Greece is commonly divided into three periods: Early Helladic (c. 2800 2000 B. Middle Helladic (c. 2000 1500 B. and Late Helladic (c. 1500 1100 B. The Middle Helladic begins with the wide-scale settlement in Greece of an Indo-European period, but no MycenaeanMycenaean can have the following meanings: coming from or belonging to the ancient town of Mycenae in Attica in Greece; belonging to the culture of the Mycenaean period of the eastern Mediterranean in the late Bronze Age; the Mycenaean language, an ancien finds have been found yet. First signs of renewed habitation date from the Iron AgeIn mythology, the Iron Age is the age following the golden, silver and bronze ages and characterized by a general degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is commonly regarded as beginning after the t. The site is left again in the RomanRoman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens but also applicable to typography math and a commune''. Roman The noun Roman means a citizen of Rome. The adjective Roman means pertaining or related to Rome. The name Romans in period.
Close to the village is a medieval kastro. In the village itself are several Byzantine churches. __NOTOC__
| Year | Communal population | Change | Municipal population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D | 1,644 | - | - |
| 1991 | 1,381 | -283/17.21% | 2,034 |
About 67.9% of the municipality live in Geraki.