Diakopto

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Municipality of Diakopto
Διακοπτό
Statistics
Prefecture: Akrata
Province: Aigeira
Number of municipal districts: 12 (see below)
Municipal district: Diakopto (seat)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.191 (39° 11' 21") N
22.194 (22° 11' 36") E
Population: (2001)
-Municipality
-Municipal district
-Village
Percent of the municipality (village)
7,023
2,427
2,290
636
18.01%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
 -highest:
Gulf of Corinth
60 m
southern part
Postal code: GR-250 03
Area/distance code: 11-(00)30-24230
Car designation: BO
Website: www.diakopto.gr

Diakopto or Diakofto (Greek, Modern: Διακοπτό, Katharevousa: -on), older forms: Diakopton and Diakofto is a municipality in Achaea, Greece. Population app. 7,005 (2001). The town of Diakopto (Diakofto / Diakophto) is situated at the Gulf of Corinth (located 1 km north) and the lower end of the Vouraikos-Gorge. A 75 cm rack-railway of 1885 leads up to the Town of Kalavryta passing halfway the Mega-Spileon Monastry. Around the area used to have three ancient cities, Bura, Helike and Keryneia. Diakopto is served with the old GR-8 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) located 1 km to the south. Diakopto is located approximately 175 km west of Athens, about 40 km east of Patras, about 40 km north of Kalavryta, 20 km east of Aigio and about 15 km west of Aigeira.

We can found the municipallity of Diakopto exactly in the north-west Peloponnese bordering from the East with the municipallity of Akrata, from the West with the municipallity of Aigion and from the South with the pick of Kalavryta.

The municipality was created in 1835, fourteen years after the Greek War of Independence and a couple of years after the victory. The municipality was known as Voura (Βουρά).

Contents

[edit] Subdivisions

  • Kalyvitis
  • Kernitsa
  • Lofos

[edit] Municipal districts

[edit] Hamlets and settlements without offices

  • Niamata
  • Psamiako

[edit] Nearest places

[edit] Coat of arms

Its logo is stylistic and modernized. The scribbly form of the letter delta is on the right over the golden wave. A gray line is on the right end. The three main features are over the purple rock wall with a golden rim, ordered from top to bottom, it features the ancient column from Diakopto, its ancient theatre and the rack railway. The municipal name written in Greek is at the bottom.

[edit] Geography

Its geography consists of farmlands the stretch as far as 500 m from the gulf. Its main production includes olives, fruits and vegetables, pastures and other crops, many of them area grovces. The mountains covers the southern portion with forests dominating the most with some grasslands and bushes and rocks and ledges especially in the gorge located to the south. The Vouraikos river flows about 1 km west Diakopto. It has a beach located 1 km north of the town centre.

The residential areas are crowded within the centre, the main road and its train station. Many houses are sporadically located to the northwest, the northeast and the south and are mixed with farmlands. Several are summer homes and winter residences from other villages. Its street system are not grid but wiggly and curvy in the south and northwest.

[edit] Population

Year Municipal population Change Village population Change Municipal district
population		 Percent of the
municipality		 Percent of the
prefecture		 Density
1981 - - 1,848 - - - - -/km²
1991 7,023 - 2,109 +261 or +14.12% - - - 64.41/km²
2001 7,005 -18 or -0.26% 2,290 +181 or +8.58% 2,427 32.69% 21.7% 64.25/km²

[edit] History

The then village was ruled by the Ottoman Turks with some interruption by the Venetians in the mid to late-15th century and the mid to late-16th century. Diakopto was finally Greek after the Greek War of Independence of 1821, right after the signing of the declaration of independence.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War much of its buildings were rebuilt, the population boomed since that time and emigration has been small. The population reached the 2,000 mark in the late-1980s. The tremendous fire that trembled Central Aigialeia and south of the village had a small effect on the village, overall no fire were reported and the entire area north of the mountains were protected from that terrible forest fire, the southern part were affected in an area of Ano Diakopto located south of the town.

[edit] Persons

[edit] Sporting clubs

  • Diakopto AU

[edit] Around the municipality

  • Doxa Elaiona (Greek for glory)
  • Floga Rodia (Greek for flame)
  • Iraklis Zachloritiko - named after Hercules
  • Niki Nikoleika (Nikolaiika)

[edit] Other

Diakopto has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (high school), church, banks, a small port, a train station and a few squares (plateia).

[edit] External links

[edit] See also

Municipal districts of the municipality of Diakopto
Ano Diakopto (Pounta) | Diakopto (Kalyviti | Kernitsa | Lofos) | Elaionas (Metochi | Terpsithea) | Eliki (Kalanteri) | Katholiko | Keryneia (Nea Keryneia) |Mamoussia (Derveni | Stavria) | Nikoleika | Rizomylos | Rodia | Trapeza (Paralia Trapezis) | Zachloritika
Greece | West Greece | Achaia | Aigeira | Diakopto
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