Apideonas

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Apideonas or Apideona (Greek: Απιδεώνας), older form: Apideon is a Greek village located 44 km southwest of Patras, . Karatoula had a population of 638 in 2001 for the village. Apideonas is also in the municipality of Larissos since 1997. Apideonas is connected with the Lappa-Mataragka and villages of the southwestern Movri and a few more roads.

[edit] Nearest places

• Kagkadi, north (distance: about 3 km)
• Riolos, east
• Neapoli, southwest
• Neo Vouprasio, northwest

[edit] Geography

Apideonas is situated in a hilly area near the plain that extends from Kouroutas to Kato Achaia. The area are made up of farmlands and forests dominate the western portion. Its main production are fruits including watermelon, melon, figs and vegetables including corn, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, cucumbers and others as well as dairy, livestock, olives and others. The majority of the population are rural-based, the rest work on services as well as a growing number on agricultural factories. The population had left for larger cities and outside Greece but an increase in population did not see a large emigration.

Residential and other buildings are within the main and farm roads. The transformer line connecting Patras and Pyrgos runs to the north and a secondary one also to the north connecting with other parts.

[edit] Population

[edit] History

The village was founded in 1924 and in 1925, the Greek government brought in forty families that had arrived from Asia Minor during the Greco-Turkish War. In every family, it had 45 acres of land, one horse and one cow. Before the area that was settled by the refugees, the area was the royal property in which it went as far as Amaliada. In the villagte has a football (soccer) club. The origin of the name comes from apidia (Απιδιά). Apideona is built on a field of Vouprasia in which most of the area is in the Ilia prefecture and the area during the ancient times was in the Vouprasia land. The western part belong to Ilia until the reorganization in the 1970s and the late-1990s.

[edit] Other

Apideona has a school, a church, and a square (plateia), its nearest school and lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are in Lappa.

[edit] External links

• Homepage of the municipality of Larissou (Greek)
• Apideonas GTP Travel Pages
• Map and aerial photos:
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  • Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available
• Coordinates: 38°4′15″N, 21°25′24″E

[edit] See also

• List of settlements in the Achaea prefecture