Stavrodromi is a Greek

Greece

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 village located south of Patras

Patras

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, west of Kalavryta

Kalavryta

Kalavryta is a town and a municipality in the eastcentral part of the peripheral unit of Achaea, Greece. It is the southern terminus of the Kalavryta - Diakopto Road and the eastern terminus of the Patras - Kalavryta Road. It is located approx...

, west-northwest of Tripoli

Tripoli, Greece

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 and northeast of Pyrgos

Pyrgos, Elis

Pyrgos is the capital of the Elis peripheral unit in Greece. It is named after a local tower. The city is located in the western part of the Peloponnese, in the middle of a plain near the Ionian Sea. It is 96 km away from Patras via Greek National Road 9, 320 km from Athens, and...

. The GR-33

Greek National Road 33

Greek National Road 33 is a highway that runs from Patras, originally at Dimitris Gounaris Street, now begins at the beltway, and had a branch ending at Olympia, and ends near Vytina, and Levídi, and some think it still ends at Ellinikon near Andritsaina and Megalopolis...

 (Patras - Tripoli) runs through the village. Stavrodromi had a 2001 population of was 254 for the village and 536 for the municipal district. Stavrodromi was the seat of the 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...

.

Subdivisions

• Panouseika or Panousaiika
• Rachi
• Xirochori

Geography

Stavrodromi is situated in the Chalandritsa-Fares Plain and are mainly made up of farmlands and a few forests. The mountains are to the western and the eastern prts. Mount Skollis is to the west and Mount Erymanthos

Mount Erymanthos

Mount Erymanthos is a dense mountain range south of Patras in the middle of Achaia prefecture. The mountains is also called Olonos . Historically it was in northwestern Arcadia and was the second tallest in the historic Arcadia, the northern portion belonged to the historic Achaea...

 is to the east. Its 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.

Information

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 between the 1981 and the 1991 census, but it slowed the 1991 and the 2001 censuses.

Population

Year	Population	Municipal district population
1981	403	-
1991	192	-
2001	254	536