Kertezi ( el, Κέρτεζη) is a mountain village in the municipality of Kalavryta,

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. It is built in the valley of a tributary of the river Vouraikos, east of the mountain Kallifoni. In 2011 the population of Kertezi was 365. It is 12 km southwest of Kalavryta. During the

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, Anagnostis Striftombolas came to Kertezi, took a military body of 15 men and battled in the Battle of Levidi, where he was killed on 14 April 1821.

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