The Municipal Unit of Ithomi does not include a community named Ithomi but is named after Mt. Ithome, the central geographic feature visible everywhere in the territory.
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Messene remained the capital for several hundred years until the Byzantine Empire moved the seat of Messenia east of Mt. Ithome.
This new Messene, today's Ancient Messene, was constructed over the ruins of Ithome, an ancient city originally of Achaean Greeks, destroyed previously by the Spartans and abandoned for some time.
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He supposed that the region around Ithome would already have had that name, to be reutilized by Epaminondas a thousand years later.
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In 85 days the combined armies and exiles guided by the engineers and artisans had complete the walled city of Messene over the site of the previous Ithome.
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