Antroni () is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Lasiona,

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, Olympia,

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. The community consists of the villages Antroni, Panopoulo, Zachareika and Chania Spartoulia. Antroni is situated near the

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, on a small plateau between deep and narrow river valleys. It is 1 km north of

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, 10 km southwest 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 ...

and 19 km northeast of Olympia. The

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(

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- Tripoli) runs through Panopoulo and Chania Spartoulia. According to

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used a net to catch the Erymanthian Boar in a gorge near Antroni. Antroni was part of the municipality of Lampeia between the 1830s and 1912. It was an independent community until the 1998, when it joined the new municipality of Lasiona. This in turn became part of the municipality Archaia Olympia in 2011.

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The Antroni Homepage

The Koumani Homepage
{{Lasiona Populated places in Elis Olympia, Greece

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