Gargalianoi

Gargalianoi (Γαργαλιάνοι) is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Trifylia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 122.680 km2. It is situated 4 km from the Ionian Sea coast, 18 km north of Pylos, 21 km south of Kyparissia and 43 km west of Kalamata. The Greek National Road 9 (Patras - Pyrgos - Pylos) passes through the town.

Subdivisions
The municipal unit Gargalianoi is subdivided into the following communities:
 * Floka
 * Gargalianoi
 * Lefki (including Tragana)
 * Marathopoli
 * Mouzaki
 * Pyrgos
 * Valta

Famous inhabitants

 * Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, who later anglicized his name to Theodore Agnew, father of United States Vice President Spiro Agnew
 * Tellos Agras, Officer of the Hellenic Army during the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
 * Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem, born Ηλίας Γιαννόπουλος in Gargalianoi in 1952