Tsivdi

Tsivdi (Greek: Τσιβδί) is a neighbourhood in the central part of the city of Patras 1 km southwest of the downtown core. The subdivision is bounded with Dimitri Gounari Street to the north, the Karaiskaki Street to the east and Trion Navarchon Street to the south.

Streets

Agiou Andreou Street
Faraggi Street
Dimitriou Gounari Street
Maizonos Street
Othonos-Amalias Avenue
Riga Fereou Street
Sachtouri Street
Trion Navarchon Street

Geography

The entire area are residential. Its length and width is approximately 1 km and its area is approximately 1 to 2 km².

History

The area was farmland until the reign of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 AD). Severus constructed the port of the city, which was used until the Venetian rule and by the Venetians. The port was located in the present day area by Gounaris Street up to Trion Navarchon Street 1 km southwest of downtown. At the entrance of the port there were two towers. The depth was around 4 m and is in the today's Ypsila Alonia Square. With the destruction of the city from the Venetians, the area used the port other than the continuation in which that time it had a lot of odour and plague in the city. In 1883, it filled up the earth and drained and it extended the city.

Before the Greek War of Independence and that time was the second Venetian rule, it had a Jewish population. It was one of the largest neighbourhoods. Today it is a quiet subdivision with many neoclassical buildings and shops. All of its residential areas were reconstructed after the revolution. Its streets were numbered and named and later on paved and lamp posts were added.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, four- to eight-storey buildings were built in the eastern part but its architecture remains with two to three-storey buildings in the western part. Street lights were modernized, traffic lights were installed.

Information

The Port of Patras is to its west, it also features a square by Agiou Andreou and Gounari Streets.

References

The first version of the article is translated and is based from the article at the Greek Wikipedia (el:Main Page)

The City of Patras

Districts of Patras	Central, now 4th East, now 3rd North (Arktiko), now 1st South, now 2nd

Patras neighborhoods	Agia Aikaterini Agia Sofia Agia Triada Agialexiotissa Agios Alexios Agios Andreas Agios Georgios Langoura Agios Dimitrios Agios Dionyssios Agios Nektarios Agyia Ampelokipoi Antheia Anthoupoli Aroi Asyrmatos Begoulaki Chalkomata Dasylio Diakou Drosia Eglykada Eschatovouni Evraiomnimata Geraneika Girokomeio Glaraki Glyfada Gouva Ities Kalamaki Kaminia Kantrianika Kastellokampos Kavouri Kokkinos Milos Kotroni Koukouli Kritika Krya Iteon Kypseli Ladopoulou Lefka Lykochoro Makrygianni Markato Metamorfosi Sotiros Neapoli Zarouchleikon Pagona Pantokratoras Perivola Portes (Rodopoulou) Pratsika Proastio Prosfygika Psachou Psarofai Psilalonia Pyrosvesteio Riganokampos Skagiopouleio Skioessa (Voudeni) Synora Tabachana Taraboura Terpsi Terpsithea Tritaki Tsivdi Tzini Vlatero Voudi Zarouchleika Zavlani

Patras old neighborhoods	Dexameni Egglezika Farmaki Galaxidiotika Gazohori Kloukiniotika Mantzavineika Megoulianitika Tasi

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