Kallikomo

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Kallikomo or Kalikomo
Κάλλίκωμο
Statistics
Prefecture: Ilia
Province: Olympia
Municipality: Skillounta
Municipal district: Kallikomo (seat)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
37.587 (37° 35' 3") N
21.582 (21° 35' 16") E
Population: (2001)
-Village
-Percent of the municipality
1,203 (+200 or +19.94%)
1,318
68%
1.92%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:		 about 80 to 20 m
66 m
about 200 to 250 m
Postal code: GR-270 55
Car designation: HA

Kallikomo (Greek: Modern: Κάλλίκωμο, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), also Kalikomo, Ancient: Kallikomon and Kalikomon, also Kallikomi is a community located east of GR-9/E55 in the municipality of Skillountas and the prefecture of Ilia, in Greece. Distance from Pyrgos is 18 km SE, 3 km W of Krestena and 6 km W of Olympia, and about 10 km NW of Zacharo and N of GR-9/E55 and Kyparissia. It is accessed east of the highway and northwest of GR-76 which accesses to Andritsaina and Megalopoli. The village is developed out of the two villages of Krounoi and Ladiko.

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[edit] Settlements

[edit] Nearest places

[edit] Geography

[edit] Historical population

Year Village population Change Municipal district population Change Percent of the municipal district
1981 1,080 - - - -
1991 1,003 -77 or -7.13% - - -
2001 1,203 +200 or +19.94% 1,318 - 91.27%

[edit] Other

Kalamos has a kindergarten school nipiagogeio, small school, a church, a municipal building, a restaurant, a post office, several cafes and a square(plateia). The nearest train station is SW. Local streets constitute a grid. Fertile lands dominate the northwest while mountains with pine trees and pine forest dominate the northeast, east, south and southwest.

[edit] History

The intent of centralizing Krounoi and Ladiko was first announced in the time of the military dictatorship in Greece, because Ladiko lacks its own water, and both villages lack access to a stream. Thus it seemed obvious to the ruling military powers of that time, according to barracks rules, to build the residents of these towns a prefabricated village with loans and gifts to bait them to moving in. Nearly all of the inhabitants left Krounoi and Ladiko; so in 1970 Kallikomo came into being, until today an unattractive suburb of Krestena, with health-threatening asbestos in the prefabricated houses/roofs, not well liked by most of the inhabitants. Some few, to whom health was more important, decided later to go back to Krounoi. They remain in the small village even today and try to get their lives back together. Ladiko and Krounoi have no municipal building of their own today, being logically assigned to the one in Kallikomo.

On March 26, 2002, pilot Pantelis Karantalis was hailed as a hero by the population of Kallikomo for managing to steer his crashing A-7 Corsair bomber away from the village before bailing out[1]. During the forest fire that plundered southern and central Ilia prefecture on August 2007, Kallikomo escaped the fire's fury and no harm occurred into Kallikomo even though it is densely forested, the eastern portion received the damages.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Worldwatch

[edit] External links

[edit] See also

Municipal districts of the municipality of Skillounta
Graika | Diasekka (Ladikaki | Papa Chania | Skala) | Frixa (Anemochoraki) Grylos (Chani Gryllou) | Kallikomo (Krounoi | Ladiko) | Kalyvakia (Nea Kalyvakia) | Kato Samiko (Kleidi | Fragkokklisia) | Krestena (Moschoula | Poros) | Makrissia | Platiana | Ploutochori (Neo Chorio) | Raches | Samiko | Skillountia (Nea Skillountia) | Trypiti (Lekani) | Vrina
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