Kameni Chora (Greek: Καμένη Χώρα, meaning burnt town which the name is derived from a nearby volcano of Methana) is a village located in the northwestern part of the Methana peninsula. It is located in a valley northwest of the volcanic summit. It is located W of Methana, E of Ligouri, NE of Kranidi, ENE of Ermioni, NW of Troizina and W of Poros. Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Kranidi or Kranidhi (Greek, Modern: Κρανίδι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older forms Kranidio, Kranidion and Kranidhion is a town located in the southern part of Argolis in the Peloponnese, Greece. ... Ermioni is a small town and a popular tourist resort in the Peloponnese, Greece. ... Troezen (TREE-zun, Greek: Τροιζήν), modern: Troizina or Trizina is a city in Argolis located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana. ... This Poros is an island pair. ...

Geography

• Location:
  • Longitude: 21.335 (21°20'4') E
  • Latitude: 38.614 (38°36'55') N
• Population: 45 (1991)
• Postal code: 180 30
• Elevation:
  • lowest: around 200 to 250 m
  • centre: around 300 to 350 m
  • highest: about 412 m
• Dialing code: +11+30-22980 (030-22980)

Kameni Chori has a small school, a chapel of Agios Sotirios and a square (plateia). Residential houses and within the low valley in the west-central part and has grasses with a few trees to its east. The rocky landscape and bushes are to the west and east. Much of the area is bushy. The forests are founded within the valleys and around the old faded crater rim. It is the place where the last eruption happened in around 276 BC at the elevation of 412 to 417 m and another in 1700. Much of the population is made up of farmers and is agriculturally known. The main products are olive, almonds and wine. Tourism is also becoming popular especially at the tavern bar Ifaisteio or Ifestio on a road linking to Cape Kalo Koumbaro. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Plateia (πλατεία) is the Greek word for town square. ... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC Years: 281 BC 280 BC 279 BC 278 BC 277 BC - 276 BC - 275 BC 274 BC... Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ... Binomial name Olea europaea L. The Olive (Olea europaea) is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Syria and the maritime parts of Asia Minor and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea. ... This article refers to the plant. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ...

The volcano of the mountain top includes some red fractured rocks at the steep of the lava dome. Tracts of trees are grown around the dormant volcano. The name of the volcano is Malia Vgethi (Μάλια Βγέθι) which the name comes from Albanian. The elevation is 680 m and is located next to the tallest mountain in the peninsula. It is in the foot of Kameni Choria. The volcano has a roughly arranged crater in which the northern, eastern and southern part are deforested. But the southern part has some forests and the western part has a mountain top. It is a historically active volcano. It was active beginning about 150,000 years ago and consists of andesite and dacite. It is difficult to climb and is the most impressive volcanoes in the Saronic Gulf and one of over 30 in Methana. It is among the objects of the Troezen area and Methana along with the landscape. There is a gravel road which is approximately 45 m to the crater. The volcano was investigated and studied by geologists like Washington, Foque, R. V. Leyden and V. Dietrich. A sample of andesite (dark groundmass) with amygdaloidal vesicules filled with zeolite. ... Gray, red, black, altered white/tan, flow-banded pumice dacite Dacite is a high-silica igneous, volcanic rock. ... The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth. ...

The extinct volcano includes the panorama of the southern half of the peninsula along with parts of the northeastern Peloponnese, western and southwestern Attica including Kakia Skala, parts of Aegina and the islands of Angistri, Kyra and a smaller one further north and the Saronic Gulf. Though Peloponnese is used to refer to the entire peninsula, the periphery with that name includes only part of that landmass. ... Attica (in Greek: Αττική, Attike; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. ... Aegina (Greek: Αίγινα Egina), one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 31 miles (50 km) from Athens. ...

External links

• methana/methana_photos_02.htm Photos of Kameni Chori volcano
• http://www.koutouzis.gr/methana.htm (in Greek)