Greek National Road 9 is the second-longest national highway that runs into the Peloponnese. Its length is around 220 km (140 miles). Though Peloponnese is used to refer to the entire peninsula, the periphery with that name includes only part of that landmass. ...

This highway travels near:

• Bypasses:
• Patras and Area, since 2002
• Vrachneika
• Alissos
• Kato Achaia
• Ano Achaia
• Rachi
• Lappa
• New Manolada
• Varda
• Lechaina
• Andravida
• Kavasilas
• Gastouni
• Savalia
• Chanakia
• Pyrgos
• Through the cities:
• Epitalion
• Gomosto
• Sagaiika
• New Vouprasi
• Kourtesi
• Marathia
• Zacharo
• Kalo Nero
• Kyparissia
• Filiatri
• Gargalianoi
• Pylos
• Methone

Patras, view from the port Patras (Greek: Modern: Πάτρα, Ancient: Πάτραι, Pátrai; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the third largest city of Greece, and also the capital of the Achaea region of Greece. ... There are communities and a municipality that have the name Vrachneika, pronunciation: vrakh-NAY-ee-kah (Greek: Βραχνέικα, Βραχναίικα until the 1990s,also Vrahneika) in Greece: Vrachnaiika, rarely Vrachnaiika or Vrahneika (the municipality, Greek: Dêmos/Dimos Vrachnaiikon) is a community and a municipality that is 12 km south of and... There are other place names that the spelling was or sometimes used, see Alisos. ... Kato Achaia, pre-1990s/rarely Kato Ahaia (Greek: Κάτο Αχαϊά) Is a community 22 km SW of Patras, 242 km W of Athens and 74 km (old 78 km) NE of Pyrgos. ... Lappa (Greek, Modern: Λάππα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -s), rarely Lapa is a community in the western part of Achaea in Greece. ... For other entries that is Varda, see the disambuigation page. ... Lechainá (Λεχαινά), also Lechena or Lehena is a town in the Prefecture of Ilia, Greece that is 39 km N (old distance: 37 km) north of the nearby city of Pyrgos and regions of Messenia and Arcadia. ... Andrav da, (Ανδραβίδα) is a city in the Prefecture of Ilia in Greece that has a military base in the east side. ... There are places that have the name Kavasila (Greek, Modern: Καβάσιλα, Ancient/Katharevoussa: Καβάσιλας) in Greece: Kavasila, a village in the Athens metro area (Attica) Kavasila, a village in the prefecture of Ilia Kavasila, a village in Imathia Kavasila, a village in northern Ioannina This is a disambiguation page — a... Gastouni (Greek: Γαστούνη, -ι) is a town and a municipality in northern Ilia, Greece. ... Savalia, rarely Savalia (Greek: Σαβάλια) is a community located 74 km SE of Patras, 21 km N of Pyrgos, and 5 km NW of Amalias, Savalia was passed by GR-9, but has a branch to Amalias, now bypassed to its west. ... For other places that have the same name, click Pyrgos (disambiguation) Pyrgos is an archaeological site of the Minoan civilization near Myrtos in the municipality of Ierapetra on the south coast of Crete. ... Gomosto (Greek: Γομοστό) is a small village and a community which includes Vlacheika. ... Sageika, rarely Sagaiika (Greek: Σαγέικα, formerly: Σάγαιικα) is a village in western Achaia in the northcentral part of the municipality of Movri. ... Kourtesi (Greek: Modern: Κουρτέσι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on) is a community having its centre off the highway connecting Patras and Pyrgos. ... There are two places that have the name Marathia/Marathea: Marathia, a village in the central part of the prefecture of Argolida Marathia, a village in the westertn part of Eurytania Marathia, a village of Amaliada in the prefecture of Ilia Marathea, a village in the southern part of the... Zacharo (Greek: Ζαχάρω), also Zaharo or Zakharo is a community and a municipality located in the southwestern part of the prefecture of Ilia in the middle of a highway named GR-9/E55 linking Pyrgos and GR-9A along with Kyparissia. ... Kyparissia, rarely Cyparissia (Greek: Κύπαρισσία) is a town of around 4,000 in western Messenia. ... Gargalianoi (Greek: Γαργαλιάνοι), also Gargaliani, the village of the burned-out Sinanis, is a community located in the western part of Messenia. ... There are also Pylos in Ilia including Pylos Ilias and Pyrgos Trifylias which are both archaeological sites Pylos (Greek Πύλος Formerly Navarino) is the name of a bay and a town on the west coast of the Peloponnese, in the district of Messenia in southern Greece. ... Methone could refer to in Greek mythology, Methone was one of the Alkyonides, the seven beautiful daughters of the Giant Alkyoneus. ...

Features

It runs almost entirely along the coast of the Ionian Sea and the whole Western Peloponnese as well. The Ionian Sea. ...

History

Road blockage occurred on this highway SW of Amalias (on the 79th or 80th kilometer featuring the Dounaiika-Amalias Junction 20 km NW of Pyrgos). Tractors were calling a strike for demanding more money. Tractors lined up enough to paralyze the entire traffic between Achaea and the southern Peloponnese. One tractor read Théloume ta lephtá mas, we demand money. There were about 50 tractors and about a 100 protestors all over the western Peloponnese. It lasted between 2 and three days.

Here is the marking going southward for Greece Highway 9. Expansion made it cut to 96 km from 100 km The defunct routes are probably no longer maintained by the federal government.:

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II Lappa (Greek, Modern: Λάππα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -s), rarely Lapa is a community in the western part of Achaea in Greece. ...

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