Lampiri is a Greek

Greece

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 village located southeast of Patras

Patras

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. Lampiri had a population of 246 in 2001. Lampiri is part of the municipal unit of Erineos

Erineos

Erineos is a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Aigialeia, of which it is a municipal unit. Its seat of administration was in the village of Kamares. It is connected by the old road of GR-8 linking Patras and...

. Lampiri is connected with the old GR-8

Greek National Road 8

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 and is connected with the new GR-8A

Greek National Road 8A

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/E65

European route E65

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 (Athens

Athens

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 - Corinth

Corinth

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 - Patras) 8 km southeast by Longos. Lampiri is located 28 km southeast 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...

 and approximately 12 km northwest of Aigio

Aigio

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. Until 1998, it was part of the old commune of Ziria and joined to become Erineos

Erineos

Erineos is a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Aigialeia, of which it is a municipal unit. Its seat of administration was in the village of Kamares. It is connected by the old road of GR-8 linking Patras and...

 under the Capodistrian Plan.

Geography

Lampiri is situated in an area that is between the mountains and the sea. The mountains are to the southwest and are covered with forests near the plain and grasslands in the highermost elevation, the rest of the area are made up of farmlands. 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 based in other businesses as well as agriculture.

History

The area around Lampiri in the ancient times

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 was the centre of the Achaean League

Achaean League

The Achaean League was a Hellenistic era confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese, which existed between 280 BC and 146 BC...

 and the today's Lampiri was the port of the ancient Erineus in which was destroyed in 412 BC by Athenian and Corinthian generals.

The origin of the name came from Gerardin de Lambrie who was a person for the whole area during the 13th century. during the Frankish rule

Frankish Empire

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 in most of southern and central Greece. In the mid-15th century, the area was plundered and joined the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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. Greek rule did not return until the Greek Revolution

Greek War of Independence

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 in 1821 and later finally joined Greece

Greece

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. Lampiri saw their economy boom but the population stably growing obese.

Houses were stone-built until the 1950s and did not surpass modern-style homes until the 1980s. It was linked with pavement in the 1980s. Most of the homes are abandoned today.

After World War II

World War II

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 and the Greek Civil War

Greek Civil War

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, much of the population left for larger towns and cities especially the nearby Patras

Patras

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. The population decline slowed between the 1981 and the 1991 census, the population rapidly declined between the 1991 and the 2001 censuses.

Lampiri today is the touristic centre during the summer months.

Population

Year	Population
1991	174
2001	246