Oinountas ( el, Οινούντας) is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Laconia Laconia or Lakonia ( el, Λακωνία, , ) is a historical and administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparta. The word ''laconic''—to speak in a blunt, c ...

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

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

Sparti Sparta ( el, Σπάρτη ) is a city and municipality in Laconia, Greece. It lies at the site of ancient Sparta. The municipality was merged with six nearby municipalities in 2011, for a total population (as of 2011) of 35,259, of whom 17,408 li ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 301.812 km². The name originates from the

Oinountas Oinountas ( el, Οινούντας) is a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sparti, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 301.81 ...

, a small river that traverses the municipality.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Oinountas is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Koniditsa (Koniditsa, Kopelia, Kouremenos) *

Sellasia Sellasia ( el, Σελλασία, before 1929: Βρουλιά - ''Vroulia'') is a village in Laconia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Oinountas. Since 2011, it is part of the municipality of Sparta. Sellasia is situated on the e ...

* Theologos (Agios Ioannis, Theologos, Kalyvia Theologou) * Vamvakou (Vamvakou, Megali Vrysi) * Varvitsa *

Vasaras Vasaras ( el, Βασσαράς) is a village in Laconia, Greece. It is part of the municipality Sparti, municipal unit Oinountas Oinountas ( el, Οινούντας) is a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local ...

(Vasaras, Veria) * Voutianoi *

Vresthena Vresthena ( el, Βρέσθενα) is a small village in the Parnon mountains, Laconia, Greece. It is part of the municipality of Sparta. See also *List of settlements in Laconia This is a list of settlements in Laconia, Greece. * Afisi * Ag ...

Geography

The municipal unit Oinountas covers the area between the northeastern part of the

Evrotas The Eurotas ( grc, Εὐρώτας) or Evrotas (modern Greek: ) is the main river of Laconia and one of the major rivers of the Peloponnese, in Greece. The river's springs are located just northwest of the border between Laconia and Arcadia, at ...

valley up to the ridge of

Parnon Parnon or Parnonas ( el, Πάρνων/Πάρνωνας) or Malevos (Μαλεβός) is a mountain range, or massif, on the east of the Laconian plain and the Evrotas valley. It is visible from Athens above the top of the Argive mountains. The wes ...

Mountain. The river

flows through the southeastern part of the municipal unit.

History

The municipality Oinountas was first established in 1835, the seat of administration being Vamvakou. It was enlarged in 1840, and the seat moved to

. It was abolished in 1912, and the municipality was split into the independent communities of Vamvakou,

and

Arachova Arachova ( el, Αράχωβα, also Αράχοβα) is a mountain town and a former municipality in the western part of Boeotia. Since the 2011 local government reform it is a municipal unit, part of the municipality Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra. ...

. It was then re-founded by law 2539/1997 (

Kapodistrias 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 1998, covering a larger area, by the merger of the communities

(the seat of the new municipality), Vasaras, Theologos, Varvitsa, Vamvakou, Koniditsa, Voutianoi, and Vresthena.

Subdivisions

Geography

History

Historical population

References

See also