Agia Anna ( meaning

Saint Anne According to apocrypha, as well as Christianity, Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's Gosp ...

) is a mountain village in the municipal unit of

Oleni Oleni () is a village and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality in Elis (regional unit), Elis, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pyrgos, Elis, Pyrgos, of which it ...

Elis Elis also known as Ellis or Ilia (, ''Eleia'') is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until 2011 it ...

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. Agia Anna is built on the slopes of the hill Axofolia, a western spur of the Foloi plateau. In the village square, the elevation is 450 m, and the top of the hill is around 670 m. Agia Anna is 2 km northeast of Goumero, 4 km west of

Klindia Klindia () is a small remote village hidden in the mountains, in the municipal unit of Oleni, Elis (regional unit), Elis, Greece. It lies 2 km northeast of Pefki, Elis, Pefki, 4 km west of Foloi, 4 km east of Agia Anna, Elis, Agia Anna and 45 km no ...

, 10 km southeast of

Simopoulo Simopoulo () is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Pineia, Elis, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders ...

and 10 km northeast of Karatoula. The area is forested, but suffered damage from the

2007 Greek forest fires The 2007 Greek forest fires were a series of massive wildfire, forest fires that broke out in several areas across Greece throughout the summer of 2007. The most destructive and lethal infernos broke out on 23 August, expanded rapidly and raged ...

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The village Agia Anna was founded in a remote place during Ottoman rule, to hide from the Turks. The village is named after its church. Between 1841 and 1912, the community was part of the old municipality of

Lampeia Lampeia (Greek language, Greek: Λάμπεια, before 1928: Δίβρη - ''Divri'', between 1928 and 1929: Πρινόφυτον - ''Prinofyton'') is a mountain village, a community and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, munici ...

. It was an independent community until 1997, when it became part of the municipality of Oleni under the

Kapodistrias reform Kapodistrias reform (, "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 Kapodistrias), passed the Hellenic Parliamen ...

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{{Oleni Populated places in Elis Pyrgos, Elis

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