Vourvoura () is a village in the municipal unit of Skiritida,

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, Arcadia,

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. It is situated in the northwestern part of the

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mountains, at 1,000 m above sea level. It is 5 km west of Agios Petros, 5 km north of

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) and 22 km southeast of

History

In 1822 three families escaped from

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and fled to Vourvoura due to the Chios massacre. In 1863 the Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Βουρβούρων was founded in Vourvoura. In 1917 the first

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was brought to Vourvoura. In 1940 106 male

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from Vouvoura volunteered to fight in the

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From the years 1946-1949 Vourvoura was embroiled in a

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between royalists and communists, in which members of the communist andartes were hiding in Vourvoura and fighting in the nearby mountains. In 2011 Vouvoura was merged into the Skiritida municipality.

Population

Notable people

* Sam Panopoulos (1934 — 2017), inventor of the

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, in Chatham, ON. * Charalambos Zouras (1885 — 1972), an Olympian during the

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References

External links

Vourvoura
at the

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