Mantzavineika
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Mantzavineika
Μαντζαβιναίικα
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...

Area/distance code: 11-0030-2610
Name of inhabitants: -
Website: www.cityofpatras.gr


Mantzavineika, older: Mantzavinaiika (Greek: Μαντζαβιναίικα) is a neighbourhood in the eastern 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...

 northeast of the Ancient Odeon. The origin of the name comes from the family of Patras, Mantzavini (Μαντζαβίνη) which lived in Sotiradi and Pantokratoros Streets. The family descended from the village of Mantzavinata
Mantzavinata
Mantzavinata is a village in the southwest of Kefalonia, Greece, where the famous Mantzavino Vine is sold. Mantzavinata is 4 km southwest of Lixouri on the peninsula Paliki. Mantzavinata has three churches and a small square called Lemonata...

 in which is now in the municipality of Lixouri
Lixouri
Lixouri is the main town on the peninsula of Paliki in the island of Kefalonia, one of the Ionian Islands of western Greece. Lixouri is the second largest community in Kefalonia after Argostoli and before Sami and is the capital of the small peninsula...

 in the Kefalonia
Kefalonia
The island of Cephalonia, also known as Kefalonia, Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of . It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit...

prefecture.

The toponym was not heard from the middle of the 19th century.
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