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Xylokastro
Xylokastro ( el, Ξυλόκαστρο) is a seaside town or village and a former municipality in Corinthia in the Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Xylokastro-Evrostina, of which it is a unit or component. The municipal unit has an area of 310.252 km2. In 2011 its population was 5,715 for the town and 13,277 for the municipal unit. Geographic features include a long 2 km beach and semi-arid forest on varied terrain, scattered with early churches and evidence of early settlements and religious sites. It has narrowly separated upper and lower coastal roads and forms a medium-sized touristic village on the Gulf of Corinth. Subdivisions The municipal unit Xylokastro is subdivided into the following communities (2011 population and constituent villages in brackets): * Ano Trikala (104, Ano Trikala, Zireia) * Dendro (144) * Geliniatika (431, Geliniatika, Spartinaaika) * Kamari (903, Kamari, Kariotika) * Karya (5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xylokastro-Evrostina
Xylokastro–Evrostina ( el, Ξυλόκαστρο-Ευρωστίνα) is a municipality in the Corinthia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Xylokastro. The municipality has an area of 411.667 km2. Municipality The municipality Xylokastro–Evrostina was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units: *Evrostina *Xylokastro Xylokastro ( el, Ξυλόκαστρο) is a seaside town or village and a former municipality in Corinthia in the Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Xylokastro-Evrostina, of which it is a un ... References Municipalities of Peloponnese (region) Populated places in Corinthia {{Peloponnese-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinthia
Corinthia ( el, Κορινθία ''Korinthía'') is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese. It is situated around the city of Corinth, in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Geography Corinthia borders on Achaea to the west and southwest, the Gulf of Corinth and Attica to the north, the Saronic Gulf to the east, Argolis to the south and Arcadia (regional unit), Arcadia to the southwest. The Corinth Canal, carrying ship traffic between the Ionian Sea, Ionian and the Aegean Sea, Aegean seas, is about east of Corinth, cutting through the Isthmus of Corinth. Corinthia is increasingly seen as part of the wider metropolitan area of Athens, with municipalities, such as Agioi Theodoroi in the easternmost part of the regional unit, being considered suburbs of Athens. The area around Corinth and the western Saronic Gulf, Saronic including the southeastern part are made up of fault lines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manna, Greece
Manna ( el, Μάννα, before 1927: Μάρκασι - ''Markasi'') is a village in Corinthia, southern Greece. It is a community of the municipal unit Xylokastro. It had a population of 476 permanent citizens at the 2011 census. It resides at the mountain foot of Ziria at an elevation of 850m. The name originates from a spring in the village. Before that the village was named Markasi which is a Turkish word that means Marias eyebrow because of the mountain line above the village which looks like an eyebrow. History The village was founded in 1800 from colonists that came from Barbitsa and from Lagadia Arkadias. Members of the family Barbitsioti settled in Markasi at around 1820. The village participated in the revolution of 1821 against the Turks. Under the leadership of Basili Barbitsioti they fortified under a rock at the entrance of the village and drive the Turks away many times. At that time the family Barbitsioti built the church of Ag. Dimitrios. During World War II the villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geliniatika
Geliniatika (Greek: Γελινιάτικα; Geliniátika) is a village belonging to the municipality of Xylokastro, in the region of Corinth, Greece. The next major settlement is Sykia, approximately 4 km to the north. The local economy is mainly based on traditional smallholding A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology .... At the entrance of the village is the church of St Nicholas which was built around 1960, where originally stood the smaller church of St Nicholas which was built in 1870. Geliniatika village was settled a few years before the 1821 Revolution, by residents from the nearby mountainous Gelini, who would come down towards the coast with their herds to pass the winter, or to find work from the Turkish settlers. Later, the village was used as a place to pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panariti, Corinthia
Panariti ( gr, Παναρίτι, translit=Panaríti) is a village in the municipality of Xylokastro, in the north of the Corinth region, Greece. According to the 2011 census, the village had 349 residents. At the turn of the 20th century, the village was renowned for its Black Corinth grapes, which are dried into Zante currants. The currants from Panariti were introduced to California in 1901 by botanist David Fairchild David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United State ..., and are still grown in California, Arizona and Nevada. References {{Xylokastro-Evrostina div Populated places in Corinthia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sykia, Corinthia
Sykia ( el, Συκιά) is a small village on the northern coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece, belonging to the municipality of Xylokastro in Corinthia Corinthia ( el, Κορινθία ''Korinthía'') is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese. It is situated around the city of Corinth, in the north-eastern part .... Populated places in Corinthia {{Peloponnese-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thalero
Thalero ( el, Θαλερό) is one of the oldest villages in Corinthia, Greece. It is located 2 kilometers from the Gulf of Corinth, close to the city of Xylokastro. Its original name was Tholero cause of the water but changed through years to Thalero a name has its origins in ancient Greek word “thalos” which means blooming. The village has many flowers so that's how it took his modern name. Poet Angelos Sikelianos Angelos Sikelianos ( el, Άγγελος Σικελιανός; 28 March 1884 – 19 June 1951) was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as ''The Moonstru ... spent his vacations there and wrote a poem has the name of the village. From the village you have an extraordinary view of the gulf. Its population is around 200 people and the hospitality of its people is famous to all of Corinthia. {{Peloponnese-geo-stub Populated places in Corinthia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pellini
Pellene (; grc, Πελλήνη; grc-x-doric, Πελλάνα or Πελλίνα) was a city and polis (city-state) of ancient Achaea, the most easterly of the twelve Achaean cities (the Achaean League). Its territory bordered upon that of Sicyon on the east and upon that of Aegeira on the west. Pellene was situated 60 stadia from the sea, upon a strongly fortified hill, the summit of which rose into an inaccessible peak, dividing the city into two parts. Its port was at Aristonautae. Mythology and proto-history Its name was derived by the inhabitants themselves from the giant Pallas, and by the Argives from the Argive Pellen, a son of Phorbas. Pellene was a city of great antiquity. It is mentioned in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships in the ''Iliad''; and according to a tradition, preserved by Thucydides, the inhabitants of Scione in the peninsula of Pallene in Macedonia professed to be descended from the Achaean Pallenians, who were driven on the Macedonian coast, on their return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulf Of Corinth
The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf ( el, Κορινθιακός Kόλπος, ''Korinthiakόs Kόlpos'', ) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Isthmus of Corinth which includes the shipping-designed Corinth Canal and in the west by the Strait of Rion which widens into the shorter Gulf of Patras (part of the Ionian Sea) and of which the narrowest point is crossed since 2004 by the Rio–Antirrio bridge. The gulf is bordered by the large administrative divisions (regional units): Aetolia-Acarnania and Phocis in the north, Boeotia in the northeast, Attica in the east, Corinthia in the southeast and south and Achaea in the southwest. The gulf is in tectonic movement comparable to movement in parts of Iceland and Turkey, growing by per year. In the Middle Ages, the gulf was known as the Gulf of Lepanto (the Italian form of Naupactus). Shipping routes between the Greek commer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
