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Levidi
Levidi ( el, Λεβίδι) is a small town and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Tripoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 312.641 km2.Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation), see External links The town is situated on the northeastern slope of the Mainalo mountains, at about 850 m elevation. Levidi is 9 km northwest of Kapsas, 10 km east of Vytina, 12 km southwest of Kandila and 20 km northwest of Tripoli. It is at the junction of the Greek National Road 74 (Tripoli– Pyrgos) and the Greek National Road 66 (Levidi - Nemea). Levidi was the site of several battles during the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, and in ancient times was thought to have been the site of a sanctuary to Artemis Hymnia. The great Greek-Australian rugby league footballer George Peponis has ancestral ties to this to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kandila, Arcadia
Kandila ( el, Κανδήλα) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Levidi, Arcadia, Greece. It is situated on the southern slope of the Oligyrtos mountain, at about 800 m elevation. In 2011, it had a population of 690 for the village and 714 for the community, which includes the village Diakopi. Kandila is near the tripoint of Arcadia, Corinthia and Argolis. It is 5 km southwest of Skoteini (Argolis), 12 km northeast of Levidi and 29 km north of Tripoli. The Greek National Road 66 (Levidi – Nemea) passes through the village. The village is not visible from far away, with the exception of the Monastery of Virgin Mary, which is built inside a large rock, on the side of the mountain and can be seen as you enter the plateau. Population History In a document from 1467, it was stated that the ''Fields of Kandila'', (the Kandyliotikos Kampos) were farmed and had ample supply of water. In 1777, following the Orlov events, many inhabitants of Kandil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadia (regional Unit)
Arcadia ( el, Αρκαδία, ''Arkadía'' ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological figure Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan. In European Renaissance arts, Arcadia was celebrated as an unspoiled, harmonious wilderness. Geography Arcadia is a rural, mountainous regional unit comprising about 18% of the land area of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is the peninsula's largest regional unit. According to the 2011 census, it has about 86,000 inhabitants; its capital, Tripoli, has about 30,000 residents in the city proper, and about 47,500 total in the greater metropolitan area. Arcadia consists partly of farmland, and to a larger extent grassland and degenerated shrubland. It also has three mountain ranges, with forestation mainly at altitudes above 1000 meters: Mainalo, a winter ski resort, situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kardaras
Kardaras ( el, Καρδαράς) is a mountain village in the municipal unit of Levidi, Arcadia, Greece. It is situated in the eastern foothills of the Mainalo mountains, at 1,030 m elevation and is considered a traditional settlement. As of 2011, it had a population of 20. It is 5 km northwest of Kapsas, 6 km south of Levidi, 6 km east of Alonistaina and 15 km northwest of Tripoli. The Greek National Road 74 (Tripoli – Olympia – Pyrgos) passes east of the village. Population See also *List of settlements in Arcadia *List of traditional settlements of Greece Traditional settlements in Greece are considered those settlements that have retained their unchanged image of the past, as well as their local character. The traditional settlements designated by law in Greece exceed 800. Around 830 traditional ... External linksKardaras at the GTP Travel Pages [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara, Greece
Dara ( el, Δάρα, also Δάρας - ''Daras'') is a community in the municipal unit of Levidi, northern Arcadia, Greece. It is situated on a mountain slope near the border with Achaea. It is 2 km southeast of Pankrati (Achaea), 5 km northeast of Prasino, 16 km north of Vytina and 16 km northeast of Levidi. The Greek National Road 33 (Patras - Levidi) passes south of the village. Dara has a historical folklore museum displaying the woodcarvings of Giannis Bakopoulos. Historical population External links Dara, Arcadia GTP - Daras See also * |
Panagitsa, Arcadia
Panagitsa ( el, Παναγίτσα) is a community in the municipal unit of Levidi, northern Arcadia, Greece. It is situated at the edge of a wide valley, at 540 m elevation. It is 3 km west of Chotoussa, 5 km southeast of Dara, 6 km east of Prasino and 12 km northwest of Levidi. The Greek National Road 33 (Patras - Tripoli) passes through the village. Historical population Culture * Panagitsa Folklore Museum See also *List of settlements in Arcadia This is a list of settlements in Arcadia, Greece. * Aetorrachi * Agia Sofia * Agia Varvara * Agiorgitika * Agios Andreas * Agios Georgios * Agios Ioannis * Agios Konstantinos * Agios Petros * Agios Vasileios, Leonidio * Agios Vasileio ... External linksUniversity of Patras on Panagitsa References {{Levidi[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripoli, Greece
Tripoli ( el, Τρίπολη, ''Trípoli'', formerly , ''Trípolis''; earlier ''Tripolitsá'') is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the Peloponnese region as well as of the regional unit of Arcadia. The homonym municipality has around 47,000 inhabitants. Etymology In the Middle Ages the place was known as Drobolitsa, Droboltsá, or Dorboglitza, either from the Greek Hydropolitsa, 'Water City' or perhaps from the South Slavic for 'Plain of Oaks'. The association made by 18th- and 19th-century scholars with the idea of the "three cities" (Τρίπολις, τρεις πόλεις "three cities": variously Callia, Dipoena and Nonacris, mentioned by Pausanias without geographical context, or Tegea, Mantineia and Pallantium, or Mouchli, Tegea and Mantineia or Nestani, Mouchli and Thana), were considered paretymologies by G.C. Miles. An Italian geographical atlas of 1687 notes the fort of ''Goriza e Mandi et Dorbogliza''; a subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vytina
Vytina ( el, Βυτίνα, ''Vytína'') is a mountain village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. It is considered a traditional settlement. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 139.309 km2. The seat of the municipality was the village Vytina. The village is located at the foot of the mountain range Mainalo. The area produces marble, a variation called the Black of Vytina. Vytina is 10 km east of Levidi, 15 km northeast of Dimitsana and 24 km northwest of Tripoli. The Greek National Road 74 (Tripoli - Pyrgos) passes through Vytina. The ancient Arcadian city Methydrion was located near Vytina. Subdivisions The municipal unit Vytina is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Elati * Kamenitsa (Kamenitsa, Karvouni) *Lasta (Lasta, Agridaki) *Magouliana (Magouliana, Pan) *Nymfasia * Pyrgaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek National Road 74
National Road 74 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 74, abbreviated as EO74) is a single carriageway road in southern Greece. It connects Pyrgos, Elis, Pyrgos with Tripoli, Greece, Tripoli, via Olympia, Greece, Olympia and Vytina. Its length is . It runs through the western and central part of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the regional units Elis (regional unit), Elis and Arcadia (regional unit), Arcadia. Route The western terminus of the GR-74 is in Pyrgos, Elis, Pyrgos, where it branches off the Greek National Road 9, GR-9. On its way east, it follows the Alfeios valley past Olympia, Greece, Olympia until Tripotamia, where it starts following the river Ladon (river), Ladon upstream. Near Kalliani it turns east again. It passes through mountainous northern Arcadia (regional unit), Arcadia, through the towns Vytina and Levidi. It ends at Tripoli, Greece, Tripoli, where it is connected with the Greek National Road 7, GR-7 and the Greek National Road 39, GR-39. National Road 74 passes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlacherna, Arcadia
Vlacherna is a settlement in Arcadia, Greece. Administratively it is the seat of the local community (residents 371, 2011 census). It is a municipal unit of Levidi in the municipality of Tripoli (Kallikratis Plan, 2010). It is built at a height of 954 meters above sea level, on the slopes of Mainalo. It is 32 kilometers from Tripoli, 7 km from Levidi and 12 km from Vytina. Most villagers are farmers. For their sheep and goats and their fieldwork, they need the meadows and fields that are located in the widening plain below their village. But peculiarities of nature—too much or too little water, depending on the annual time—are a burden for them, also, because the plain is a large karst basin without surface drainage. The photo with the sheep shows the main part of the basin, where attempts are made to avoid flooding by several ditches and subterranean drainage. However, when there is very much winter rain, floods are possible in spite of two ponors (katavothes) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaiopyrgos
Palaiopyrgos ( el, Παλαιόπυργος, "Old Tower", before 1957: Μποντιά – ''Bontia'' or ''Bodia'') is a village in the municipal unit Levidi, Arcadia in Greece. Its mediaeval name was Bodia or ''Bodea.'' It is best known as the source of the ''syrtos botiakos'', a popular variety of the ''syrtos'' dance. History The village's mediaeval name ''Bodia'' is thought to be derived from the Slavic word ''boda'',University of Patras: The Arcadia Website. «Παλαιόπυργος, Ιστορία». 1999–2002. Retrieved 14-04-2010. meaning "winter quarters" (usually for sheep).Pring, J.T. ''The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary.'' (New York: 1965 & 1982; 2000 ed.), p.206 (The Peloponnese was invaded by Slavic nomads who ruled some areas from the seventh to ninth centuries CE; even after the restoration of Byzantine rule, some of these tribes retained their Slavic identity into Byzantine times). Even today, the neighbourhood of Palaiopyrgos contains Slavic toponyms. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemis Hymnia
Hymnia ( grc, Ὑμνία) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis under which she was worshipped throughout Arcadia. She had a temple someplace between Orchomenus and Mantineia. We know from the geographer Pausanias that Orchomenus at least used to hold festivals in her honor. The priests and priestesses of Hymnia were at first always virgins who were to remain celibate in the priesthood. They were also subject to high standards of propriety, such as being forbidden to enter into the home of a private individual. This lifetime celibacy was fairly unusual for ancient Greek priesthoods. In the early 7th century BCE, after the king Aristocrates of Orchomenus raped one of the priestesses in the temple, it was deemed that the priestess should always be a married woman, or, according to some, an elderly woman, or one who had simply ceased or had had "enough" sex with men. The sanctuary of Artemis Hymnia is believed to have been near the modern town of Levidi Levidi ( el, Λεβί ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Peponis
George Peponis (born Georgios Peponis el, Γιώργος Πεπόνης; on 3 September 1953) is a Greek Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australia national and New South Wales state representative , he played in the NSWRFL Premiership for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, with whom he won the 1980 Grand Final. He also captained the Bulldogs and New South Wales, and played in eight Test matches for Australia between 1978 and 1980, captaining the side on five consecutive occasions between 1979 and 1980. Background Peponis was born in Tripoli, Arcadia in the Peloponnese to ethnic Greek parents who originally came from the small Arcadian village of Levidi on the outskirts of Tripoli on 3 September 1953. He emigrated with his family to Australia when he was just 18 months old in 1954 like many other Greeks in those days. He attended Sydney's Canterbury Boys' High School where he played rugby union and was a Canterbury r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
