Antroni

Antroni (Greek, Modern: Αντρώνι, Katharevousa: -ον), older forms: -o and -on is a village in Greece, near ancient Olympia and 60 km from Patras on the "111" Greek National Road 33. It is 45 km from a landmark tower and 50 km from Amaliada with an altitude of 16 metres. The place's population is ranked before Kakotari and after Kryovrysi.

ettlements

To Antroni belong the settlements of Panopoulo (seat), Zachareika, Spartoulia, Agios Georgios, Katsarou and roughly half of Foloi (Kapeli).

Location

Koumani is located 50 km from Pyrgos, 70 km south of Patras and 90 km west-northwest of Tripoli.

Population

Geography

Antroni is built on the plateau of Foloi (which was named the centaur Folos). Antroni is also near large ravines, which cross from the one side of the river of Paliopotamo, and from the other side of the Kokalaki or Omirikos River, Sellieis, or Piniakos Ladonas. Antroni has a gorge ( [http://www.antroni.gr] ), that is characterized as an area of great historical and ecological value, According to Greek mythology it was near this gorge that Heracles used a net to catch the Erymanthian Boar.

Information

Antroni has approximately 10 km of paved roads and 10 km of gravel roads. Theisoa also has approximately 10 km of hydro lines as well as phone lines.

History

Antroni was ruled by the Ottoman Turks until the Greek War of Independence in 1821. It was finally liberated and over a decade later, Antroni became a part of the municipality of Lampeia until 1912. It became a community until the late-1990s and joined the new municipality of Lasiona.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. Pavement was linked in the 1950s along with electricity, radios arrived in the 1960s as well as automobiles and television in the 1980s. Towns and village became connected with pavement which first began in the 1970s and completed in the early-2000s. Computer and Internet was introduced at the turn of the century.

Economy

Its residents live off in agriculture and many of these are art workers and hotel services.

Other

Antroni has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a church, and a square ("plateia"). Its nearest gymnasium (secondary school) and banks are in Panopoulo and its nearby hospital is in Pyrgos.

ee also

*List of places in the Ilia prefecture

External links

* [http://www.antroni.gr The Antroni Homepage]

[http://www.antroni.gr]