Kalpaki

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Municipality of Kalpaki Δήμος Καλπακίου Dimos Kalpakiou
Statistics
Prefecture:	Ioannina
Province:	N/A
Municipality:	Kalpaki (seat)
Municipal district:	'Kalpaki (seat)
Number of municipal districts:	8 (see below)
Municipality last created:	1997
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	39.8836 (39° 53' 1") N 20.623 (20° 37' 25") E
Population: (2001) -Municipality (Change) -Town -Municipal district -Percent of the municipality -Percent of the prefecture	2,324 (-18.79% from 1991) 558 754 24.01% 13.7%
Altitude:  -lowest:  -centre:	about 420 m 440 m about 1,000 m (west)
Postal code:	GR-440 42
Car designation:	IN

Kalpaki (Greek, Modern: Καλπάκι), older forms: -o and -on is a municipality in the Ioannina Prefecture, Greece, about 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Ioannina, southwest of Konitsa and Kastoria, west-southwest of Kozani and east of Kakavia and Delvinaki. Population 2,324 (2001). Kalpaki is connected with the GR-20 linking Ioannina and Konitsa, Kastoria and Kozani which is not the main road for Kozani since 2005.

Contents 1 Subdivisions 2 Municipal districts 3 Population 4 History 5 Other 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Subdivisions

• Lioumpa

[edit] Municipal districts

• Ano Ravenia
• Chryssorachi
• Doliana
  • Agios Georgios Doliana (formerly Agios Georgios)
• Geroplatanos
• Kalpaki
• Kato Doliana
• Mavrovouni
• Negrades

[edit] Population

Year	Settlement population	Change	Municipal district population	Municipal population	Change	Percent of the municipal district	Percent of the municipality	Percent of the prefecture
1981	586	-	-	-	-	-
1991	521	-65 or -11.09%	-	2,874	-	-
2001	558	+32 or +6.14%	754	2,324	-550 or -18.79%	74.01%	24.01% (village) 32.44% (municipal district)	1.37%

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world.

[edit] History

Kalpaki did not join Greece until the Balkan Wars of 1913. Its economy slowly improved after the end of the Turkish rule over Epirus.

Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

[edit] Other

Kalpaki has a few schools, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia), its nearest hospital and university are in the city of Ioannina.

[edit] See also

• List of settlements in the Ioannina prefecture

[edit] External links

• Kalpaki (municipality) on GTP Travel Pages
• Kalpaki (town) on GTP Travel Pages
• Map and aerial photos:
  • Street map information from: Mapquest, LiveLocal or Google orYahoo! Maps
  • Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available
• Coordinates: 39°53′1″N 22°37′25″E / 39.88361, 22.62361Coordinates: 39°53′1″N 22°37′25″E / 39.88361, 22.62361

	North: Ano Pogoni	Northeast: Konitsa
West: Delvinaki	Kalpaki	East: Central Zagori
Southwest: Ano Kalamia	South: Egnatia

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