Pratsika
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Pratsika Πράτσικα |
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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... : |
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... : |
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: | South |
Area/distance code: | 11-0030-2610 |
Name of inhabitants: | - |
Website: | www.cityofpatras.gr |
Pratsika (Greek: Πράτσικα) is a neighbourhood in the southern 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...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. The neighbourhood was known as Portes (Πόρτες) and was known by this name because it had the entry of the city, the door. Around 1800, several lands were brought by Sideris Pratsikas who lived in Droviani in Epirus, this were it receives its current name.