Hyameia

Hyameia (Ancient Greek: Ὑαμεία),[1] also known as Hyamia (Ὑαμία), was a town of ancient Messenia. According to tradition, Cresphontes established the territory of Hyameia (called the Hyameitis) as one of the five territories into which he divided Messenia.[2][3] It was located between Messene and Androusa.[4][5]

References

Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.361. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Pausanias (1918). "14.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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[1] Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.

[2] Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.361. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.

[3] Pausanias (1918). "14.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.

[4] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.

[5] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.