Aroania ( el, Αροάνια) is a village and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. T ...

West Greece Western Greece Region ( el, Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας, translit=Periféria Dhitikís Elládhas, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It comprises the western part of continental Greece and the north ...

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Kalavryta Kalavryta ( el, Καλάβρυτα) is a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece. The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos, south of Aigio, southeast of Patras and ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 173.804 km². The population is 1,619 (2011 census). The seat of administration was in the town

Psofida Psofida (Greek: Ψωφίδα) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Aroania in the southern part of Achaea, Greece. The community consists of the villages Psofida, Ano Psofida, Tripotama, Ano Tripotama, Kato Tripotama and Vasiliki. ...

. The municipality is named after the village and the

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Subdivisions

The municipal unit Aroania is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Agrampela (Agrampela, Platanitsa) * Agridi * Alestaina * Anastasi (Anastasi, Moni Agion Theodoron) *Aroania * Desino * Kamenianoi (Kamenianoi, Drovolovo) * Lechouri (Lechouri, Kerasea, Selli) * Livartzi (Livartzi, Livadi, Livartzino) *

Plaka Pláka ( el, Πλάκα) is the old historical neighborhood of Athens, clustered around the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis, and incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture. Plaka is built on top of the residenti ...

(Psofida, Ano Psofida, Ano Tripotama, Kato Tripotama, Tripotama, Vasiliki) * Seires (Seires, Agioi Theodoroi, Agios Georgios, Krini, Thomaiika)

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