Eliki ( el, Ελίκη, before 1917: Ζευγολατιό - ''Zevgolatio''
Name changes of settlements in Greece
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Diakopto ( el, Διακοπτό) is a coastal town municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reforms it is a municipal unit of the Aigialeia municipality. The municipal unit has an area of 103.932 km2. Popu ...
, 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 ...
, Greece
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. It was named after the nearby ancient town Helike
Helike (; el, , pronounced , modern ) was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) that was submerged by a tsunami in the winter of 373 BC. It was located in the regional unit of Achaea, northern Peloponnesos, two kilometres (12 stadia) from the ...
. Eliki is located near the river Selinountas and the Gulf of Corinth
The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf ( el, Κορινθιακός Kόλπος, ''Korinthiakόs Kόlpos'', ) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Ist ...
. It is southeast of Aigio
Aigio, also written as ''Aeghion, Aegion, Aegio, Egio'' ( el, Αίγιο, Aígio, ; la, Aegium), is a town and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, on the Peloponnese. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipali ...
and west of Diakopto. Nea Keryneia is adjacent to the east. Eliki had a population of 516 in 2011, including the small village Kalanteri. The Greek National Road 8A
Greek National Road 8a ( el, Εθνική Οδός 8a, abbreviated as EO8a) was a toll road in the Attica, Peloponnese and West Greece regions. It connected Athens with the cities of Corinth and Patras. It was built in the 1960s as a replaceme ...
(Athens
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- Corinth
Corinth ( ; el, Κόρινθος, Kórinthos, ) is the successor to an ancient city, and is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part ...
- Patras) passes south of the village.
Population
See also
*List of settlements in Achaea
This is a list of settlements in Achaea, Greece:
* Achaiko
* Agia Marina
* Agia Varvara, Akrata
* Agia Varvara, Tritaia
* Agios Konstantinos
* Agios Nikolaos Kralis
* Agios Nikolaos Spaton
* Agios Nikolaos
* Agios Stefanos (Peristera)
* Ag ...
References
External links
Eliki on GTP Travel Pages
Eliki in www.ediakopto.gr
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Aigialeia
Diakopto
Populated places in Achaea