Lampeia (

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

: Λάμπεια, before 1928: Δίβρη - ''Divri'', between 1928 and 1929: Πρινόφυτον - ''Prinofyton'') is a mountain village, a community and a former

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

Elis Elis also known as Ellis or Ilia (, ''Eleia'') is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until 2011 it ...

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Archaia Olympia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 72.447 km². The community includes the village Amygdali. Lampeia is situated south of

Mount Erymanthos Mount Erymanthos (, Latin: ''Erymanthus'') overall is an irregular massif of peaks connected by ridges embedded in the mountains located in the north of the Peloponnese, Greece. Erymanthos is on the west side. Its highest peak, Olenos or Olonos ...

, in the valley of a tributary of the river Erymanthos. Its elevation is 802 m above sea level. The

Greek National Road 33 Greek National Road 33 (, abbreviated as EO33) is a single carriageway road in southern Greece. It connects Patras with the Greek National Road 74 ( Pyrgos - Tripoli) near Levidi, passing through the western and southern foothills of Mount ...

(

Patras Patras (; ; Katharevousa and ; ) is Greece's List of cities in Greece, third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaiko ...

Tripoli Tripoli or Tripolis (from , meaning "three cities") may refer to: Places Greece *Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece * Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in the Pelasgiotis district, Thessaly, near Larissa ...

) passes through it. Lampeia is 4 km west of Oreini, 9 km northeast of

Koumanis Koumanis (, also Κούμανι - ''Koumani'') is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Foloi, Elis, Greece. The community includes the small villages Ai Giannakis and Kastania. Koumanis is located at 650 m above sea level, ...

, 28 km northeast of Olympia and 45 km south of Patras.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Lampeia is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *

Astras Astras () is a mountain village of the Elis region in West Greece. A formerly independent community, it became part of the municipality of Lampeia as a result of the 1997 Kapodistrias reform. At the 2011 Kallikratis reform, Lampeia became a munici ...

(Astras, Kalyvia Astra) *Lampeia (Lampeia, Amygdali) * Oreini (Oreini, Paliofytia)

Population

History

The name ''Lampeia'' was taken from the mountain ''Lampeia'', which is part of the Erymanthos range. According to Pausanias the river Erymanthos has its source on the mountain ''Lampeia'', which is sacred to Pan. The area was part of Arcadia. Due to its inaccessibility, Lampeia saw few invaders. Also the

Ottomans Ottoman may refer to: * Osman I, historically known in English as "Ottoman I", founder of the Ottoman Empire * Osman II, historically known in English as "Ottoman II" * Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empir ...

stayed in the lower areas for strategic reasons. The Zoodochos Pigi monastery in Lampeia was a centre of Greek culture and education. Several inhabitants fought in the

Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. In 1826, the Greeks were assisted ...

, and some well known families of politicians (Petralias, Panagoulis,

Stefanopoulos Stephanopoulos, Stefanopoulos (), feminine: Stephanopoulou, Stefanopoulou () is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andreas Stephanopoulos (1860–1938), Greek politician * Anna Stefanopoulou, Greek-American mechanical engi ...

, Zafeiropoulos) came from Divri/Lampeia. Lampeia was created as one of the eight municipalities of the Elis prefecture in the 1830s, and was disbanded in 1913. This municipality was larger than the present municipal unit, and included several villages now in adjacent municipal units (among others

Antroni Antroni () is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Lasiona, Elis, Olympia, Greece. The community consists of the villages Antroni, Panopoulo, Zachareika and Chania Spartoulia. Antroni is situated near the Foloi oak forest, ...

and

Klindia Klindia () is a small remote village hidden in the mountains, in the municipal unit of Oleni, Elis (regional unit), Elis, Greece. It lies 2 km northeast of Pefki, Elis, Pefki, 4 km west of Foloi, 4 km east of Agia Anna, Elis, Agia Anna and 45 km no ...

). The municipality was recreated under the

Capodistrian Plan Kapodistrias reform (, "Kapodistrias Plan") is the common name of law 2539 of Greece, which reorganised the country's administrative divisions. The law, named after 19th-century Greek statesman (Ioannis Kapodistrias), passed the Hellenic Parliament ...

in the late-1990s, and became a subdivision of the municipality of Archaia Olympia in 2011.

Notable people

Pavlos Matesis Pavlos Matesis (12 January 1933 – 20 January 2013) was a Greek novelist, playwright and translator. He was born in Divri, a village in the Peloponnese and had a peripatetic youth. He studied acting, music and languages, and taught drama at the ...

,Επίτομο Γεωγραφικό Λεξικό της Ελλάδος (Geographical Dictionary of Greece), Μιχαήλ Σταματελάτος, Φωτεινή Βάμβα-Σταματελάτου, εκδ. Ερμής, ΑΘήνα 2001 writer

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