Iklena or Iklaina (Greek: Ίκλαινα) is a historic village in the province of Pylia , prefecture of Messenia, Greece. Approximately 14 km to the northeast of the modern town of Pylos and 2 km NE of GR-9 (Pyrgos - Kyparissia - Pylos - Methoni). Important archaeological remains of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC) period have been brought to light through excavations and surface survey by the Athens Archaeological Society in the 1950s and by the University of Missouri-St. Louis between 1999 and 2004. Other periods represented are the Late Classical and the Byzantine.
Geography
- Location:
- Longitude: 21.719 (21°43'9') E
- Latitude: 36.995 (36°59'32') N
- Postal code: 240 01
- Elevation: 190 m
- Dialing code:
Historical population
| Year | Communal population | Change
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| 1981 | 352 | -
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| 1991 | 342 | -10/88.1%
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Iklaina has a small school, a church, and a square (plateia).
Iklaina is surrounded by mountains with a rocky terrain, bushes and some forests and groves.
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