Alepochori, Achaea Explained

Alepochori
Name Local:Αλεποχώρι
Coordinates:37.9667°N 68°W
Elevation:506
Periph:West Greece
Periphunit:Achaea
Municipality:Erymanthos
Municunit:Tritaia
Population As Of:2021
Pop Community:230
Postal Code:251 00
Licence:AX

Alepochori (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αλεποχώρι) is a village and a community in southern Achaea, Greece. Alepochori is located on the northern slope of Mount Erymanthos, about 35 km south of Patras. The community includes the village Agios Dimitrios.

Population

Year Village population Community population
1690s 111 -
1981 - 379
1991 143 570
2001 188 424
2011 99236
2021 131 230

History

The area followed the fate of the rest of Achaea. Between 1460 and 1821 the area was ruled by the Ottoman Turks, except a brief period of Venetian rule between 1687 and 1715. In the Venetian censuses of 1697 and 1699 the village was called Alpochori Trano (Αλποχώρι Τρανό) and had 111 inhabitants, in 1700, it had 38 families. Alepochori became Greek after the Greek War of Independence of 1821.

Alepochori was part of the municipality of Erymanthia between 1835 and 1841, and of the municipality of Tritaia between 1841 and 1912. It was an independent community between 1912 and 1998, and became part of Tritaia again in 1998. At the 2010 Kallikratis reform, it became part of the new municipality Erymanthos.[1]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: EETAA local government changes . 26 June 2020.