Kalpaki

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Municipality of Kalpaki
Δήμος Καλπακίου
Dimos Kalpakiou
Statistics
Prefecture: Ioannina
Province: N/A
Municipality: Kalpaki (seat)
Municipal district: 'Kalpaki (seat)
Number of municipal districts: 8 (see below)
Municipality last created: 1997
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.8836 (39° 53' 1") N
20.623 (20° 37' 25") E
Population: (2001)
-Municipality (Change)
-Town
-Municipal district
-Percent of the municipality
-Percent of the prefecture
2,324 (-18.79% from 1991)
558
754
24.01%
13.7%


Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
about 420 m
440 m
about 1,000 m (west)
Postal code: GR-440 42
Car designation: IN

Kalpaki (Greek, Modern: Καλπάκι), older forms: -o and -on is a municipality in the Ioannina Prefecture, Greece, about 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Ioannina, southwest of Konitsa and Kastoria, west-southwest of Kozani and east of Kakavia and Delvinaki. Population 2,324 (2001). Kalpaki is connected with the GR-20 linking Ioannina and Konitsa, Kastoria and Kozani which is not the main road for Kozani since 2005.

Contents

[edit] Subdivisions

  • Lioumpa

[edit] Municipal districts

  • Ano Ravenia
  • Chryssorachi
  • Doliana
    • Agios Georgios Doliana (formerly Agios Georgios)
  • Geroplatanos
  • Kalpaki
  • Kato Doliana
  • Mavrovouni
  • Negrades

[edit] Population

Year Settlement population Change Municipal district population Municipal population Change Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality Percent of the prefecture
1981 586 - - - - -
1991 521 -65 or -11.09% - 2,874 - -
2001 558 +32 or +6.14% 754 2,324 -550 or -18.79% 74.01% 24.01% (village)
32.44% (municipal district)		 1.37%

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world.

[edit] History

Kalpaki did not join Greece until the Balkan Wars of 1913. Its economy slowly improved after the end of the Turkish rule over Epirus.

Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

[edit] Other

Kalpaki has a few schools, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia), its nearest hospital and university are in the city of Ioannina.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

North: Ano Pogoni Northeast: Konitsa
West: Delvinaki
 Kalpaki East: Central Zagori
Southwest: Ano Kalamia South: Egnatia
Municipal districts of the municipality of Kalpaki
Ano Ravenia | Chrysorrachi | Doliana (Agios Gerogios Doliana) | Geroplatanos | Kalpaki | Kato Ravenia | Mavrovouni | Negrages
Greece | Epirus | Ioannina | Kalpaki
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