Tenea
Tenea (Greek: Τενέα) is a municipal unit within the municipality of Corinth, Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. The municipal unit has an area of 167.575 km2 (64.701 sq mi). Until 2011, it was a municipality whose seat was in Chiliomodi.
Tenea
Τενέα | |
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Tenea Location within the regional unit | |
| Coordinates: 37°48′N 22°52′E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Peloponnese |
| Regional unit | Corinthia |
| Municipality | Corinth |
| • Municipal unit | 167.6 km2 (64.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 290 m (950 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Municipal unit | 5,084 |
| • Municipal unit density | 30/km2 (79/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 200 08 |
| Area code(s) | 27410 |
| Vehicle registration | ΚΡ |
The modern city is named after ancient Tenea, established approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) SE of Corinth and 20 km (12 mi) NE of Mycenae shortly after the Trojan War. According to Pausanias, Tenea's founders were Trojan prisoners of war whom Agamemnon had allowed to build their own town. The name Tenea is styled upon Tenedos, the founders' home town, whose mythological eponym was the hero Tenes. Tenea and Rome, according to Virgil's Aeneid, had in the years following the Trojan War produced citizens of Trojan ancestry. Under the leadership of Archias in 734 or 733 BC, Teneans and Corinthians established the joint colony of Syracuse in Sicily, the homeland of Archimedes.