Vytina

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name_local = Βυτίνα
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Vytina (Greek: Βυτίνα), is a town and a municipality located in northwestern Arcadia, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. Its local inhabitants are known as Vytiniots. The village was connected, now bypassed by GR-74 in the east and is SW of GR-33 which connects to Achaea. It is located E of Pyrgos, approx. 145 km SE of Patras, NE of Megalopoli and Dimitsaina and approx. 25 km NW of Levidi and 5 km SW Tripoli. The plain is E of Vytina.The village is located on the slopes of the mountain ranges which includes Mainalo. Another mountain range is founded in the west and another to the north along with the valley. Pine trees surround the eastern and the southern part of the village while much of the municipality are forested. The area produces marble, a variation called the Black of Vytina.

Municipal districts

*Elati
*Kamenitsa
**Karvouni
*Lasta
**Agridaki
*Magouliana
**Pan
*Nymfasia
*Pyrgaki
**Methydri or Methidri

Population history

History

Vytina was founded in the ancient times as Methydrion (Μεθύδριο "Methydrio", "Methidrio" and "Methidrion"). In the area featured Demeter, the rubbles of the temple in which survives by the entrance to Magouliana near Petrovouni. Methydrio was under the Roman and later the Byzantine rule. It later became Vytina and fell into Frankish rule, it was later became a part of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-15th century with a short Venetian rule in the early years and from the 1680s to the early-18th century. Vytina did not became Greek until the Greek Revolution in 1821, Vytina had a supply, the city played a great role during the middle of the war and fought many times against Ibrahim.

Vytina's population remained stable and its residents were poor, it had a great agricultural economy until World War II and the Greek Civil War.

The village used to have a large population before the beginning of the 20th century. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population began to decline as residents moved to larger towns and cities and outside of Greece. One exception was that the population remained steady between 1981 and 2001.

Much of the houses were stone built until the 1960s. Electricity arrived in the same year. Vehicles arrived in the 1970s, the pavement of the main road and television arrived in the 1980s and computer and internet are rarely known in the beginning of the 21st century and up to date technology are not seen.

Persons

From Vytina it has several persons including Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos, father of the historic Constantine Paparrigopoulos, the law student Vasileios Oikonomidis, the fortress chief Ioannis Dimakopoulos and the hero Kollias the Vytiniot.

Other persons includes Giorgos Santas, in which together with Manolis Glezos restored the Greek flag at the Acropolis after non-Greek occupation during the Battle of Greece, a part of World War II, also the former President of Cyprus, Giorgos Vasileiou.

Other

Vytina has a school, a church, a post office, and a square ("plateia").

ee also

*List of settlements in the Arcadia prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/Vytina GTP - Vytina Municipality]
* [http://www.gtp.gr/Locpage.asp?id=8662 Vytina Village]
* [http://www.greekmarble.com/area/ Black of Vytina]
* [http://www.marbleguide.gr/samples/ Black of Vytina - Marbleguide]