Levidi () is a small town and a former municipality in Arcadia,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Tripoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 312.641 km². The town is situated on the northeastern slope of the

Mainalo Mainalo (, ; ) is the tallest mountain in the Menalon highlands of the Peloponnese, and is located in Arcadia. The mountain's highest point, known as both ''Profitis Ilias'' and ''Ostrakina'', at a height of , is the highest point in Arcadia. ...

mountains, at about 850 m elevation. Levidi is 9 km northwest of Kapsas, 10 km east of

Vytina Vytina (, ''Vytína'') is a mountain village and a former municipality in Arcadia (regional unit), Arcadia, Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese, Greece. It is considered a List of traditional settlements of Greece, traditional settlement. Since t ...

, 12 km southwest of Kandila and 20 km northwest of Tripoli. It is at the junction of the Greek National Road 74 (Tripoli– Pyrgos) and the

Greek National Road 66 Greek National Road 66 is a national highway in southern Greece. It connects Nemea Nemea (; ; ) is an ancient site in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. Formerly part of the territory of Cleonae (Argolis), Cleonae in ancient ...

(Levidi -

Nemea Nemea (; ; ) is an ancient site in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. Formerly part of the territory of Cleonae (Argolis), Cleonae in ancient Argolis, it is today situated in the regional units of Greece, regional unit of Corin ...

). Levidi was the site of several battles during 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 ...

from the

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, and in ancient times was thought to have been the site of a sanctuary to Artemis Hymnia. The great Greek-Australian rugby league footballer George Peponis has ancestral ties to this town.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Levidi is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Chotoussa * Daras * Kandila (Kandila, Diakopi, Moni Kandilas) * Kardaras * Komi *Levidi * Limni * Orchomenos (Orchomenos, Roussis) * Palaiopyrgos * Panagitsa * Vlacherna

Historical population

Environment

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From the town’s center The square overlooks

, Ascension Hill, Mount Artemisio and Helmos. and the huge plain ( Οropedio) below. At the other end of the plain below there are abruptly rising mountain ranges. The plain is a closed geological basin of

karstic Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. There is some eviden ...

origin. The Mainalo’s slopes are forested. But the landscape of the plain below is grassy and rural. Hills and mountains frame the plain on all sides, they are covered by rock debris (in geology) and

shrubs A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...

Gallery

File:Church-of-John-the-Baptist-Levidi.jpg, Church of John the Baptist, Levidi File:Levidiou-square.jpg, Square of the Levidi village

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