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Lampeia (
Greek
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: Λάμπεια, before 1928: Δίβρη - ''Divri'', between 1928 and 1929: Πρινόφυτον - ''Prinofyton'') is a mountain village, a community and a former
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
Elis
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,
West Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Archaia Olympia, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 72.447 km
2.
In 2011 the population of the village was 468, and of the community, which includes the village Amygdali, 529.
Lampeia is situated south of
Mount Erymanthos
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, in the valley of a tributary of the river
Erymanthos. Its elevation is about 800 m above sea level. The
Greek National Road 33
Greek National Road 33 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 33, abbreviated as EO33) is a single carriageway road in southern Greece. It connects Patras with the Greek National Road 74 ( Pyrgos - Tripoli) near Levidi, passing through the western and south ...
(
Patras
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Tripoli
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) passes through it. Lampeia is 4 km west of
Oreini, 9 km northeast of
Koumanis
Koumanis ( el, Κούμανης, also Κούμανι - ''Koumani'') is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Foloi, Elis (regional unit), Elis, Greece. Its population in 2011 was 498 for the village and 506 for the community, ...
, 28 km northeast of Olympia and 45 km south of Patras.
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Lampeia is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
*
Astras
Astras (Greek: Αστράς) is a mountainous village of the Elis region in West Greece. It became part of the municipal unit of Lampeia on January 1, 2011. Lampeia belongs to the municipality of Ancient Olympia. A local government plan, Kapodistr ...
(Astras, Kalyvia Astra)
*Lampeia (Lampeia, Amygdali)
*
Oreini (Oreini, Paliofytia)
Population
History
The name ''Lampeia'' was taken from the mountain ''Lampeia'', which is part of the
Erymanthos range. According to
Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
*Pausanias of Sicily, physician of th ...
the river
Erymanthos has its source on the mountain ''Lampeia'', which is sacred to
Pan. The area was part of
Arcadia
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Greece
* Arcadia (region), a region in the central Peloponnese
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. Due to its inaccessibility, Lampeia saw few invaders. Also the
Ottomans
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
stayed in the lower areas for strategic reasons. The Zoodochos Pigi monastery in Lampeia was a centre of Greek culture and education. Several inhabitants fought in the
Greek War of Independence
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, and some well known families of politicians (Petralias, Panagoulis,
Stefanopoulos, Zafeiropoulos) came from Divri/Lampeia.
Lampeia was created as one of the eight municipalities of the Elis prefecture in the 1830s, and was disbanded in 1913. This municipality was larger than the present municipal unit, and included several villages now in adjacent municipal units (among others
Koumanis
Koumanis ( el, Κούμανης, also Κούμανι - ''Koumani'') is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Foloi, Elis (regional unit), Elis, Greece. Its population in 2011 was 498 for the village and 506 for the community, ...
,
Antroni
Antroni ( el, Αντρώνι) is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Lasiona, Elis, Lasiona, Elis (regional unit), Elis, Greece. The community consists of the villages Antroni, Panopoulo, Zachareika and Chania Spartoulia. An ...
and
Klindia
Klindia ( el, Κλινδιά) is a small remote village hidden in the mountains, in the municipal unit of Oleni, Elis, Greece. It lies 2 km northeast of Pefki, 4 km west of Foloi
Foloi ( el, Φολόη, Latin: ''Pholoe'') is a village and a former ...
). The municipality was recreated under the
Capodistrian Plan Kapodistrias reform ( el, Σχέδιο Καποδίστριας, "Kapodistrias Plan") is the common name of law 2539 of Greece, which reorganised the country's administrative divisions. The law, named after 19th-century Greek statesman Ioannis Kapod ...
in the late-1990s, and became a subdivision of the municipality of
Archaia Olympia in 2011.
Notable people
*
Pavlos Matesis
Pavlos Matesis (12 January 1933 – 20 January 2013) was a Greek novelist, playwright and translator. He was born in Divri, a village in the Peloponnese and had a peripatetic youth. He studied acting, music and languages, and taught drama at the ...
,
[Επίτομο Γεωγραφικό Λεξικό της Ελλάδος (Geographical Dictionary of Greece), Μιχαήλ Σταματελάτος, Φωτεινή Βάμβα-Σταματελάτου, εκδ. Ερμής, ΑΘήνα 2001] writer
See also
*
List of settlements in Elis
This is a list of settlements in Elis, Greece.
* Achladini
* Aetorrachi
* Agios Andreas, Katakolo
* Agia Anna
* Agia Kyriaki
* Agia Mavra
* Agia Triada
* Agioi Apostoloi
* Agios Charalampos
* Agios Dimitrios
* Agios Georgios
* Agios Il ...
References
External links
MyDivri.gr A great site with news, photos and historical information on Divri (Δίβρη)/Lambia (Λαμπεία) (in Greek and English)
(in Greek)
Video from the ERT program ''Traveling in Greece'' (''Menoume Ellada'') shown on ET1
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Populated places in Elis
Municipalities of Greece