Monodendri

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Monodendri
Μόνοδενδρι
Location
Monodendri (Greece)
Monodendri
Coordinates 38°10′N 21°40′E / 38.167, 21.667Coordinates: 38°10′N 21°40′E / 38.167, 21.667
Time zone: EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Elevation (min-max): 0 - 5 m (0 - 16 ft)
Government
Country: Greece
Periphery: Epirus
Prefecture: Ioannina
Population statistics (as of 1991[1])
City Proper
 - Population: 522
Codes
Postal: 250 02
Area: 2610

Monodendri (Greek: Μόνοδενδρι, before the abandonment of Katharevousa, -ion, older form Monodendrion) is a suburb located 10 km south of Patras, Greece.

It is part of the municipality of Vrachneika. The neighboring communities are Roitika to the north, Vrachneika in the east bounded by an OSE/SPAP railway, and Vrachnaiika to the south. Its length from north to south is nearly 2 km, and its furthest width is no more than 300m and the size is small. Its main street runs by the seashore, and then down to the hills. The shore is filled with beaches with panoramas of western Achaia and Aetoloacarnania from the Gulf of Patras. The community has a train station. Its population is around 1,500. Much of the housing was built between the 1970s and the 1990s, because it used to be a village. The remaining farmlands lie to the south and forests are lined with the railway. Most of the community is residential. It is accessed by the old GR-9 in both sides. It is Vrachneika's closest beach.

Just outside Monodendri lies the Monastery of Saint Paraskevi. Monodendri has a school, a church, a post office and a square (plateia). The village also has a spring in the area. It also has restaurants and some forests in the east within the railway.

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Year Communal population Change
1981 361 -
1991 522 161/44.6%

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