Alpochori (Greek: Αλποχώρι, also Αλεποχώρι ''Alepochori'') is a village and a community in southern

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...

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. Alpochori is located on the northern slope of

Mount Erymanthos Mount Erymanthos ( el, Ερύμανθος, Latin: ''Erymanthus'') overall is an irregular massif of peaks connected by ridges embedded in the mountains located in the north of the Peloponnese, Greece. Erymanthos is on the west side. Its highest ...

, about 35 km south of

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. In 2011 Alpochori had a population of 99 for the village and 236 for the community, which includes the village Agios Dimitrios.

Population

History

The area followed the fate of the rest of Achaea. Between 1460 and 1821 the area was ruled by the Ottoman

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, except a brief period of Venetian rule between 1687 and 1715. In the Venetian censuses of 1697 and 1699 the village was called Alpochori Trano (Αλποχώρι Τρανό) and had 111 inhabitants, in 1700, it had 38 families. Alpochori became Greek after the

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of 1821. Alpochori was part of the municipality of Erymanthia between 1835 and 1841, and of the municipality of

Tritaia Tritaia ( el, Τριταία) is a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Erymanthos, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 244.798 ...

between 1841 and 1912. It was an independent community between 1912 and 1998, and became part of Tritaia again in 1998. At the 2010 Kallikratis reform, it became part of the new municipality Erymanthos.

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Alpochori GTP Travel Pages
{{Tritaia Populated places in Achaea

Population

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