Zavlani

Zavlani (Greek: Ζαβλάνι) also with the second an accented is a neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the city of Patras, 4 km direct and 5 km via road from the downtown core. The neighbourhood bears the football (soccer) club team named A.P.S. Zavlani and plays in the prefectural fourth division.

Nearest places

*Skioessa, northeast

Nearest neighbourhoods

*Sychaina, north
*Gouva, south
*Anthoupoli, west

Information

The name is the corruption the name Zavr(l)os (Ζαβρ(λ)ος), during the Ottoman rule, the area was settled by Albanians. Other origin of the name is in thae are it had a family name Zavlanis in which is descended from the island of Zakynthos.

Geography

Its geography is in a hilly setting and are residential, the forests are founded to the north. Its length is by 800 m to 1 km and its width is by 500 to 800 m. Its streets are approximately 8 to 10 km long of which 3 km are main, the remainder are residential.

History

The area were made up farmlands until when housing developments arrived in the 1960s and the 1970s, the housing and its population slowed in the late-1980s. Its main production consisted of olive, cattle and fruits and vegetables as well as other crops and the populationm before the arrival of the housing developments were rural, today they are manufacturing and services especially outside the neighbourhood. Electricity and radio were introduced in the 1960s. Television arrived in the 1970s and computers and Internet in the late-1990s.

Panorama

Its panorama includes the Panachaiko mountains to the east, more to the south and southeast including Omplos and Varasova and Arakynthos to the west and the north seeing the Fokida prefecture, it cannot see the mountains to the east because it is blocked by its nearest mountains.

porting clubs

*APS Zavlani

Other

Zavlani has a few schools, a lyceum (secondary school), a gymnasium (high school), a few churches and a few squares ("plateies").

References

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