Zavlani (Greek: Ζαβλάνι) is a

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; American and British English spelling differences, see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community ...

in the northeastern part of the city of Patras, direct and via road from the downtown core. The neighbourhood bears the

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club team named A.P.S. Zavlani and plays in the prefectural fourth division.

Nearest places

Skioessa Skioessa (Greek: Σκιόεσσα, meaning "umbrageous") is a neighbourhood and a settlement in the northeastern part of the city of Patras. Skioessa had a population of 526 for the settlement. Skioessa is located 5 km from downtown Patras, ...

, northeast

Nearest neighbourhoods

* Sychaina, north *

Gouva Gouva ( el, Γούβα ), also known as Agios Artemios ( el, Άγιος Αρτέμιος ) is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece. It is located to the southeast of central Athens between the First Cemetery of Athens and Dafni. The district buil ...

, south * Anthoupoli, west

Information

The name is the corruption the name Zavr(l)os (Ζαβρ(λ)ος). During the

Ottoman rule Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to: Governments and dynasties * Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924 * Ottoman Empire, in existence fro ...

, the area was settled by

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

ns. Another theory of the name is that comes from a family name Zavlanis, which descended from the island of

Zakynthos Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; el, Ζάκυνθος, Zákynthos ; it, Zacinto ) or Zante (, , ; el, Τζάντε, Tzánte ; from the Venetian form) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Z ...

Geography

Zavlani is in a hilly residential setting with forests to the north. The neighborhood's length varies from to , and its width ranges between . Its streets are approximately long, of which are main, and the remainder are residential.

History

The area were made up farmlands until when housing developments arrived in the 1960s and the 1970s, the housing and its population slowed in the late-1980s. Its main production consisted of olive, cattle and fruits and vegetables as well as other crops and the populationm before the arrival of the housing developments were rural, today they are manufacturing and services especially outside the neighbourhood.

Sporting clubs

* APS Zavlani

References

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