Kleitor or Cleitor (Greek: Κλείτωρ) is a former municipality in Arcadia,

Peloponnese The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridge whi ...

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Gortynia Gortynia ( el, Γορτυνία) is a municipality in the Arcadia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Dimitsana. The municipality has an area of 1,050.882 km2. Municipality The municipality Gortynia ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 150.582 km². Its population was 1,406 in 2011. The seat of the municipality was in Mygdalia.

History

Cleitor Cleitor or Kleitor ( grc, Κλείτωρ or Κλήτωρ), also known as Clitorium, was a town in ancient Arcadia. Situation It possessed a small territory called Cleitoria or Kleitoria (Κλειτορία), bounded on the east by the territory of ...

was a historic and powerful city-state in ancient Greece.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Kleitor is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Agridi *

Drakovouni Drakovouni ( el, Δρακοβούνι, before 1927: Γλόγοβα - ''Glogova''), Arcadia, Greece is a remote village in the municipality of Gortynia, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. It is situated at 780 m elevation, on the slope of a mountain als ...

Kerpini Kerpini ( el, Κερπινή), is a small mountain village in the north of the municipality of Kalavryta in Achaea, Greece. In 2011 its population was 173. It is 5 km west of Kato Zachlorou and 5 km north of Kalavryta town. Notable people Kerpi ...

(Kerpini, Ano Kalyvia, Kato Kalyvia) * Mygdalia (Mygdalia, Palaiopyrgos) *

Pournaria Pournaria ( el, Πουρναριά) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Kleitor, Arcadia, Greece. In 2001, it had a population of 142 for the village, and 241 for the community, which includes the village Mouria. Pournaria is sit ...

(Pournaria, Mouria) * Prasino (Prasino, Kalyvia Karnesi) * Theoktisto * Valtesiniko (Valtesiniko, Kourouveli, Olomades) * Xirokarotaina

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