Vytina ( el, Βυτίνα, ''Vytína'') is a mountain village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese,

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. It is considered a traditional settlement. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 139.309 km². The seat of the municipality was the village Vytina. The village is located at the foot of the mountain range Mainalo. The area produces marble, a variation called the Black of Vytina. Vytina is 10 km east of Levidi, 15 km northeast of

Dimitsana Dimitsana ( el, Δημητσάνα) is a mountain village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The ...

and 24 km northwest of Tripoli. The

Greek National Road 74 National Road 74 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 74, abbreviated as EO74) is a single carriageway road in southern Greece. It connects Pyrgos with Tripoli, via Olympia and Vytina. Its length is . It runs through the western and central part of the ...

(Tripoli - Pyrgos) passes through Vytina. The ancient Arcadian city

Methydrio Methydrio ( el, Μεθύδριο, before 1927: Νεμνίτσα - ''Nemnitsa'') is a village in the municipal unit of Vytina, Arcadia, Greece. In 2011, it had a population of 11. It sits at 1,060 m above sea level, at the foot of the Mainalo moun ...

n was located near Vytina.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Vytina is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Elati * Kamenitsa (Kamenitsa, Karvouni) *

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(Lasta, Agridaki) *

Magouliana Magouliana ( el, Μαγούλιανα) is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Vytina, Arcadia, Greece. In 2011, it had a population of 117 for the village and 119 for the community, which includes the small village Pan. It ...

(Magouliana, Pan) *

Nymfasia Nymfasia ( el, Νυμφασία, before 1927: Γρανίτσα - ''Granitsa'') is a village in the municipal unit of Vytina, Arcadia, Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. I ...

* Pyrgaki (Pyrgaki,

) *Vytina (Vytina, Moni Panagias Kernitsis)

Population history

Climate

Due to its altitude and inland location, Vytina has a temperate climate with cold and snowy winters and warm summers with pleasant nights. Precipitation is abundant year round.

People

The father of the historian Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos was born in Vytina. Other important Vytiniots include the explorer

Panayotis Potagos Panayotis Potagos (Greek: Παναγιώτης Ποταγός; 1838 – 1903) was a Greek physician and explorer born in Vytina. Potagos began his travels in 1867, visiting Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Gobi Desert, and India. He arrived in Egypt in 1 ...

, the jurist

Vasileios Oikonomidis Vasileios Oikonomidis ( el, Βασίλειος Οικονομίδης; Vytina, Gortnynia, 1814 – 1894) was a major Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic gr ...

, the provost marshal

Ioannis Dimakopoulos Ioannis Dimakopoulos ( el, Ιωάννης Δημακόπουλος, 1833/35–1866) was an officer of the Hellenic Army from Arcadia. He participated as a volunteer in the Cretan Revolution of 1866 and he was killed during the holocaust of Arkad ...

, the iconographer Othon Giavopoulos and Kollias Vytiniotis.

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