Psarofai Ψαροφάι
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:	Central
Distance from downtown:	1 km southwest
Population: (2001) Total Density Rank	about 3,000 to 4,000 -/km²
Population percentage (2005):	about 3 to 4%
Elevation:  -lowest:  -centre:  -highest:	about 20 m (west) 30 m(centre) about 40 m (east)
Area/distance code:	11-0030-2610

Psarofai (Greek: Ψαροφάι), also with an a accented is a neighbourhood in the eastcentral 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...

 3 km east-southeast of the downtown core. It has several streets including several places that are now former names in Asia Minor

Asia Minor

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 in modern Turkey

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 and Damascus

Damascus

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. A stream flows to the south and forms a neighbourhood boundary.

Streets

• Damaskou Street, named after Damascus
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• Ellis Street
• Ionias Street, named after the historic Ionia
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• Andreou Papandreou Street, a part of the GR-33
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   that is a partial use on signs.
• Pontou Street, named after a historic region in modern northern Turkey
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It was name in the years after the Greek Revolution

Greek War of Independence

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 of 1821, the area was filled with olive

Olive

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 groves and vineyard

Vineyard

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s and is named after "Psarofagi Intzirka" (Ψαροφάγι Ιντζήρκα). It has several origins of this neighbourhood name, one came from a fisheater known as Erodio, other that the fish eater was Glaukos who was a fisher and went crazy, he fell into the sea. Mostly, it received the name from a fish eater who loved there. In 1960, it brought residents from the villages of the current municipality of Tritaia

Tritaia

Tritaia is a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Erymanthos, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 5,462 . The seat of the municipality is in Stavrodromi...

 and built houses around the area.

Electricity arrived during the 1960s, television and radio in the late-20th century and a pedestrian traffic light to the east.

Information

The area are made up of residential areas in the area, it features a square in the northeast near Drosia, and forests in the west and east as well as a stream to the south. Its total street length is approximately 6 to 8 km of which 3 km are main streets, the rest are residential. Shops are not as common as by Drosia.

Other

Tsivdi has a few schools, a lyceum (secondary school), a gymnasium (high school) and a few churches. It has also a nearby Shell gas station in the east.