Sageika ( el, Σαγέικα, also: Σαγαίικα - ''Sagaiika'') is a village and a community in the municipal unit of

Movri Movri () is a forested mountain range in western Achaea, Greece. Its highest point is 719 m amsl. It covers part of the municipal units Movri (named after this mountain), Dymi, Larissos and Olenia, all in the municipality of West Achaea. It is ...

, western

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. The ...

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. The population of the village is about 1000. It is located in the plains between the

hills and the

Gulf of Patras The Gulf of Patras ( el, Πατραϊκός Κόλπος, ''Patraikós Kólpos'') is a branch of the Ionian Sea in Western Greece. On the east, it is closed by the Strait of Rion between capes Rio, Greece, Rio and Antirrio, near the Rio-Antirrio b ...

. It is 3 km west of

Kareika Kareika ( el, Καρέικα, also: Καράιικα - ''Karaiika'') is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Movri, Achaea, Greece. The community consists of the villages Kareika, Gomosto, Karamesineika and Rachi. It is located nor ...

, 6 km east of Metochi, 9 km southwest of

Kato Achaia Kato Achaia ( el, Κάτω Αχαΐα) is a town and a community in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality West Achaea, of which it is the seat of administration. The community Kato Acha ...

and 28 km southwest of

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. The

Greek National Road 9 Greek National Road 9 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 9, abbreviated as EO9) is a single carriageway with at-grade intersections in the West Greece and Peloponnese regions. It runs along the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, from Patras to Me ...

(Patras - Pyrgos) runs through the village. Sageika was the seat of the municipality of Movri, named for the Movri hills south of the village. The municipality was created under the

Kapodistrias reform Kapodistrias reform ( el, Σχέδιο Καποδίστριας, "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 Kapod ...

in 1998. The community Sageika consists of the following villages (population in 2011): *Sageika, pop. 1038 *Apostoloi, pop. 88 *Bouteika, pop. 149 *Vrachneika, pop. 13 *Gerouseika, pop. 557 *Stathmos, pop. 23

Population

{, class=wikitable ! Year !! Village population !! Community population , - , 1981 , , 1,319 , , - , - , 1991 , , 1,188 , , - , - , 2001 , , 1,012 , , 1,776 , - , 2011 , , 1,038 , , 1,868

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GTP - Sageika
{{Movri Populated places in Achaea

Population

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