Kalavryta Καλάβρυτα
Location
Coordinates	38°2′N 22°7′E / 38.033, 22.117Coordinates: 38°2′N 22°7′E / 38.033, 22.117
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Elevation (center):	758 m (2,487 ft)
Government
Country:	Greece
Periphery:	West Greece
Prefecture:	Achaea
Population statistics (as of 2001[1])
City Proper
- Population:	8,580
- Area:[2]	531.80 km² (205 sq mi)
- Density:	16 /km² (42 /sq mi)
Codes
Postal:	250 01
Area:	26940
Auto:	ΑΧ

Kalavryta (Greek: Καλάβρυτα) is a town, a province and a municipality in the eastcentral part of the prefecture of Achaea. It is the southern terminus of the Kalavryta - Diakopto Road and the eastern terminus of the Patras - Kalavryta Road. It is the largest municipality covering about 18% of the prefecture and is the leastly populated municipality in density. It also has the most number of communes in the prefecture. It is located approx. 40 km S of Aigio, 38 km S of GR-8/E65, about 190 km W of Athens, about 85 km NNW of Tripoli and about 130 km NE of Olympia. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 685 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (800 × 700 pixel, file size: 27 KB, MIME type: image/png) Other versions Adapted from Image:Greece outline map. ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing daylight saving Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... -12 | -11 | -10 | -9:30 | -9 | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3:30 | -3 | -2:30 | -2 | -1 | -0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth – approximately 71% of the Earths surface is covered with water. ... This list of countries, arranged alphabetically, gives an overview of countries of the world. ... The peripheries (περιφέρειες) are the subnational divisions of Greece. ... Categories: Greece geography stubs ... Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos, Greek: νομοί, νομός)): See also List of the prefectures of Greece by area List of the prefectures of Greece by population density List of the prefectures of Greece by population External... Achaea (Greek: , Achaïa; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an ancient province and a present prefecture of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the... This is an alphabetical list of municipalities and communities in Greece. ... This article is about the physical quantity. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Population density per square kilometre by country, 2006 Population density map of the world in 1994. ... Here are list of postal codes in Greece. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece. ... Achaea (Greek: , Achaïa; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an ancient province and a present prefecture of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the... Coordinates 38°25′ N 22°8′ E Country Greece Periphery West Greece Prefecture Achaea Population 27,812 source (2001) Area 151. ... Greece Interstate 8 is an old highway linking the cities of Patras, Corinth and Athens. ... E65 is a name of a BMW car platform: BMW E65/E66 a European road: European route E65 This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... This article is about the capital of Greece. ... Tripoli (Greek, Modern: Τρίπολη, Katharevousa: -s; older form and Latin: Tripolis,rarely Tripolitsa, Tripolitza and Tripolizza) is a city in the central part of the Peloponnesos, Greece, and the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia. ... Olympia among the principal Greek sanctuaries Olympia (Greek: Olympía or Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. ...

Nearest places

• Rigoi NE

Communes

• Ano Vlassia
• KALAVRITA
• Ano Loussi
• Doumena
• Drosato
• Flampoura (Kalavryta)
• Goumenissa
• Kalavryta
• Kallifoni
• Kandalos
• Kato Vlassia
• Kato Zachlorou
• Kerpini
• Kertezi
• Korfes
• Kouteli
• Lagovouni
• Lapanagoi
• Leontio
• Manesi
• Mikros Pontias
• Petsakoi
• Planitero
• Plataniotissa
• Priolithos
• Profitis Ilias
• Rogoi
• Sigouni
• Skepasto
• Trechlo
• Valta
• Vilivina

Leontio (Λεόντιο) is a community in Achaea, Greece. ...

Historical population

The village has a small school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church, a small post office, banks, a train station and a square (plateia). The climate is a little cooler that the lowlands and receives some snow during the winter months but on Chelmos/Aroania, summers are a little cooler than Kalavryta and winter is very common which is used for skiing. Much of the municipality contains forests and mountains except for the regions in the southeast and southwest. The remainder of the municipality contains farmlands. AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Plateia (πλατεία) is the Greek word for town square. ...

Kalavryta was home to developments that occurred on the 21 March 1821, which ignited the Greek War of Independence. On 13 December 1943, in what is commemorated as the Holocaust or Massacre of Kalavryta, allegedly in retribution of the killing of 81 German soldiers captured by partisans during the Nazi occupation in World War II, German troops ordered all male residents of Kalavryta, aged 12 years and up, to gather in a field just outside the village. There, they machine-gunned down 696 of them. Only 13 survived. After that they burnt down the town before they left and the next day they burnt down the Monastery of Agia Lavra, birth place of the Greek War of Independence.Post war, the federal Government of Germany offered gestures of atonement in the form of free school books for the high school,scholarships for orphans of the massacre and built an old peoples' home. No German commanders (eg Major Ebersberger who carried out the destruction of Katavryta;Hauptmann Dohnert who led the firing party) were ever brought to book for these events is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Belligerents Greek revolutionaries United Kingdom France Russian Empire Ottoman Empire Egyptian Khedivate Commanders Theodoros Kolokotronis Alexander Ypsilanti Andreas Miaoulis Georgios Karaiskakis â€  Omer Vryonis Mahmud Dramali Pasha ReÅŸid Mehmed Pasha Ibrahim Pasha. ... is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... German soldiers of the 117th Jäger Division in the burning town of Kalavryta The Holocaust of Kalavryta (Greek: ), or the Massacre of Kalavryta (Σφαγή των Καλαβρύτων), refers to the extermination of the male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, in Greece, by German occupying forces during World... Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. ... Coordinates 38°2′ N 22°7′ E Country Greece Periphery West Greece Prefecture Achaea The monastery of Agia Lavra was built in 961 AD, on Helmos Mountain, at an altitude of 961 meters, and can be described as the birth-place of modern Greece, and her national regeneration a Hellenic... Belligerents Greek revolutionaries United Kingdom France Russian Empire Ottoman Empire Egyptian Khedivate Commanders Theodoros Kolokotronis Alexander Ypsilanti Andreas Miaoulis Georgios Karaiskakis â€  Omer Vryonis Mahmud Dramali Pasha ReÅŸid Mehmed Pasha Ibrahim Pasha. ...

Kalavryta railway station

The famous Diakopto-Kalavryta Railway was built by Italian engineers between 1885 and 1895. It is the southern terminus. The railway runs through a gorge but for the southern part runs within the road linking Kalavryta and Trapeza. Its length is 22 km and the journey is 68 min long. Kalavryta also has a famous Cave Lakes which is filled with lakes inside that cave in the southeast. Kalavryta also has the Kalavryta Ski Centre which is located east of town, situated on the slopes of mount Aroania (Chelmos) at 2,341 m is the tallest in Achaia. The monastery is located on a hill situated 8 km SW via the road from Kalavryta. Its elevation is abound 940 m. Another monastery is Mega Spilaion which is located in the northeast. The Diakofto Kalavrita Railway is a rack railway in Greece. ... Year 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

See also

• List of settlements in the Achaia prefecture

This is a list of settlements in the Achaea prefecture, Greece: // Achaiko Agia Marina Agia Varvara Agia Varvara Agioi Theodoroi Agios Andreas Agios Konstantinos Agios Georgios, Rio Agios Georgios Agios Nikolaos Agios Nikolaos Agios Stefanos Agios Vasileios Agios Vlassios Agiovlastika Agrampela Agridi Agyia, Patras Aiyes Aigira, also Aegira Aigion Akoli...

External links

• Mapquest - Kalavryta
• The Plaka - Kalavryta
• Museum of the Sacrificed People of Kalavryta
• Diakofto-Kalavryta Railway
• Kalalvryta Ski Center (in Greek)
• Pictures of Kalavryta