Dorio, Messenia

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Template:Infobox Greek Dimos Dorio (Template:Langx) is a village and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Oichalia, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] The municipal unit has an area of 102.832 km2.[2] The population of the municipal unit is 1,839, and of the village alone 765 (2021 census). Dorio is Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level. The small settlement of Ano Dorio is nearby. Dorio has been mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and by Strabo and Pausanias. Homer recounts a myth that Dorio was the location of a music competition between Thamyris and the Muses.[3]

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