Megalochori is a village located in the northwestern part of the Methana

Methana

Methana is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....

 peninsula. It is located in a valley northwest of the volcanic summit. It is located W of Methana

Methana

Methana is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....

, E of Ligouri, NE of Kranidi

Kranidi

Kranidi is a town and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ermionida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Some say the name is derived from the word Koronida, while others claim it is from the word...

, ENE of Ermioni

Ermioni

Ermioni is a small town and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ermionida, of which it is a municipal unit. It is a popular tourist resort. It is on a very small out-cropping of the land facing the island of...

, NW of Troizina and W of Poros

Poros

Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surface is about and it has 4,117...

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Geography

• Postal code: 180 30
• Elevation:
  • lowest: around 100 m
  • centre: 113 m
  • highest: about 300 m
• Dialing code: +11+30-22980

Historical population

Year	Village population	Municipal district population
1981	-	437
1991	226	-
2001	167	413

Underneath the village is the ancient Acropolis of Methana which was described by Pausanias

Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical...

. The village in the mid to late 20th century was called Katoundi Imati which derived from Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

which also meant big or large village or big or large town.