Metaxata

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Metaxata Μεταξάτα
Prefecture:	Kefalonia
Province:	Kranioi
Municipality:	Leivathos (capital)
Number of municipal districts:	1 (Metaxata) - seat
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	38.1175 (38°7'5") N 21.5375 (21°32'5") E
Population: (2001) - Percent of the municipality	374 7.57%
Altitude: -lowest: -centre:	140 m (centre) near the settlement
Postal code:	360 71
Area/distance code:	11-(00)30-22350
Car designation:	`KE`

Metaxata (Greek: Κεραμειές, presently Κεραμιές), also Keramies is a community located in the southern part of the island of Kefalonia. It has a population of 493 and has only one municipal district. It is the seat of the municipality of Leivathos. In the village exists the head of the municipality and the largest school in the area, from kindergarten to high school.

1 Subdivision
2 Nearest places
3 Geography
4 Information
5 Population
6 Other
7 External links
8 See also

[edit] Subdivision

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

Kaligata
Kourkoumelata

[edit] Nearest places

The nearest places are ordered clockwise

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 strucked by an earthquake (see August 1953 earthquake) that occurred on August 1953 that destroyed every stone-built houses 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.