Alepochori, Achaea

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Alepochori
Αλεποχώρι
Settlement
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Alepochori
Coordinates: 37°58′N21°47′E / 37.967°N 21.783°E / 37.967; 21.783
Country Greece
Administrative region West Greece
Regional unit Achaea
Municipality Erymanthos
Municipal unit Tritaia
Elevation
506 m (1,660 ft)
Population
 (2021) [1]
  Community
230
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
251 00
Vehicle registration AX

Alepochori (Greek : Αλεποχώρι) is a village and a community in southern Achaea, Greece. Alepochori is located on the northern slope of Mount Erymanthos, about 35 km south of Patras. The community includes the village Agios Dimitrios.

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Population

YearVillage populationCommunity population
1690s111-
1981-379
1991143570
2001188424
201199236
2021131230

History

The area followed the fate of the rest of Achaea. Between 1460 and 1821 the area was ruled by the Ottoman Turks, except a brief period of Venetian rule between 1687 and 1715. In the Venetian censuses of 1697 and 1699 the village was called Alpochori Trano (Αλποχώρι Τρανό) and had 111 inhabitants, in 1700, it had 38 families.[ citation needed ] Alepochori became Greek after the Greek War of Independence of 1821.

Alepochori was part of the municipality of Erymanthia between 1835 and 1841, and of the municipality of Tritaia between 1841 and 1912. It was an independent community between 1912 and 1998, and became part of Tritaia again in 1998. At the 2010 Kallikratis reform, it became part of the new municipality Erymanthos. [2]

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