Tasi, Patras
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Tasi Τάσι |
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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: | North, northeast |
Tasi (Greek: Τάσι), also with the a accented is a neighbourhood in 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...
. It is located close to the castle in the modern upper city. During the Frankish rule
Frankish Empire
Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire , Frankish Kingdom , Frankish Realm or occasionally Frankland, was the territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks from the 3rd to the 10th century...
, it constructed a square named Tasso. During the Turkish rule
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
, the area around the square was destroyed and the neighbourhood of Tasi (an alterration of Tasso). The square became the then centre and its city's market. There it had all of its trade shops of the city. Today, it conjectures that the neighbourhood and the square is located in the present neighbourhood of Pantokratora.