Tsivlos

Tsivlos (Greek: Τσιβλός) is a small settlement in the municipality of Akrata, Achaia prefecture, Greece. As of 2001, it had a population of 40. It is built on the slopes of Mount Chelmos (Aroania).

Nearest places

*Ano Potamia

Population

Location and transportation

Tsivlos is located 20 km southwest of Akrata, northeast of Kalavryta, about 90 to 95 km east-southeast of Patras and about 50 to 60 km southeast of Aigio.

The village has about 4 km of paved road and about 10 to 12 km of gravel road. It has about 6 to 8 km of hydro lines, and about 3 km of phone lines.

Geography

Its surroundings consist mainly of forests and grasslands, where the forest covers much of the area, surrounding the lake, with barren land in the higher elevations. There are also several, mostly abandoned, farms in the village..

The village today

Tsivlos today features a few homes and a restaurant. There is also an environmentally-friendly electrical generator. The area is featured for many recreational activities including camping. Tsivlos has a school for the entire municipal district, a church, a post office, and a square ("plateia"). Its nearest gymnasium (middle school) and lyceum (secondary school) are in Dafni.

History

Tsivlos was mentioned as the settlement of Civlò by the census of the Venetian Francesco Grimani in 1700 and had 33 families and 148 inhbitants [Vassilis Panagiotopoulos "Plythismos kai Oikismoi tis Peloponnisou 13os-18os ai." ("Πληθυσμός και Οικισμοί της Πελοποννήσου 13ος-18ος αι." = "Population and Settlements of the Peloponnese (12th to 18th Centuries")), Emporiki Bank of Greece, Athens 1987] . Tsivlos was ruled by the Ottoman Turks with the exception from 1681 until 1715 with the last of the Venetian rule, it became a part of Greece after the Greek War of Independence.

The area is generally characterized with the inconsistancy of the ground. Since 1912, Tsivlos constituted a part of the municipality of Nonakrida. It is one of the few villages in the prefecture that retained its name. On Sunday March 24, 1912, a large volume of rocks and soil fell from a nearby mountain of Gerakari which devastated the village of Sylivaina and fell into the Krathis river. The river water flooded into a large part of Tsivlos, creating a lake with a depth of 80 m and an area of around 200 hectares