Chalkomata
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Chalkomata
Χαλκωματά
Prefecture
Prefectures of Greece
During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...

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Achaia
Province
Provinces of Greece
The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially finance services and education, as well as for electoral purposes...

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Patras
City: Patras
Patras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

Section: Central


Chalkomata or Halkomata (Greek: Χαλκωματά), also with the third a accented is a neighbourhood in the central part of the city of Patras
Patras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

. It is named after the Chalkomatas family in which they arrived in the area in 1688 from Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

. In the area featured in the outer area Antonios Kalamogdaitis. In 1923, it united the neighbourhood of Gyri or Giri and became a new subdivision under the name Skagiopouleio
Skagiopouleio
Skagiopouleio is a neighbourhood in the southern part of the city of Patras. It was founded in 1926 as well as an orphanage center and it is named after Panagiotis Skagiopoulos for the aid of orphanages from the wars, the name is still used into the present day. From 1923, the neighbourhood...

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