Aroania Explained

Aroania
Name Local:	Αροάνια
Type:	municipal unit
Coordinates:	37.8833°N 23°W
Elevation:	782
Periph:	West Greece
Periphunit:	Achaea
Municipality:	Kalavryta
Districts:	11
Population As Of:	2021
Pop Community:	49
Pop Municunit:	1259
Area Municunit:	173.8
Postal Code:	250 16
Licence:	AX

Aroania (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αροάνια) (also known as "Sopoto") is a village and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Kalavryta, of which it is a municipal unit.^[1] The municipal unit has an area of 173.804 km².^[2] The seat of administration was in the town of Psofida. The municipality is named after the village and the mountain.

Subdivisions

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

• Agrampela (Agrampela, Platanitsa)
• Agridi
• Alestaina
• Anastasi (Anastasi, Moni Agion Theodoron)
• Aroania
• Desino
• Kamenianoi (Kamenianoi, Drovolovo)
• Lechouri (Lechouri, Kerasea, Selli)
• Livartzi (Livartzi, Livadi, Livartzino)
• Plaka
• Psofida (Psofida, Ano Psofida, Ano Tripotama, Kato Tripotama, Tripotama, Vasiliki)
• Seires (Seires, Agioi Theodoroi, Agios Georgios, Krini, Thomaiika)

Notable people

• Ioannis Sofianopoulos (1887–1951), politician

Population

Year	Population
1991	2,315
2001	2,551
2011	1,619
2021	1,259

Notes and References

1. Web site: ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities. el. Government Gazette.
2. Web site: Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) . National Statistical Service of Greece . el . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf . 2015-09-21 .