Kalpaki

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.

ubdivisions

*Lioumpa

Municipal districts

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

Population

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.

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.

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.

ee also

*List of settlements in the Ioannina prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=2468 Kalpaki (municipality) on GTP Travel Pages]
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=2469 Kalpaki (town) on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.8836&longitude=20.623&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.8836&lons1=20.623&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.8836,20.623 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.8836&lon=20.623&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.8836,20.623&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=39.8836|20.623&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|39|53|1|N|22|37|25|E|type:city(2,387)_municipality_(7,035)_region:GR|display=inline,title

	North: Ano Pogoni	Northeast: Konitsa
West: Delvinaki	Kalpaki	East: Central Zagori
"'Southwest: Ano Kalamia	South: Egnatia