- Source: Langadia, Arcadia
Lagadia (Greek: Λαγκάδια) is a mountain village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 79.475 km2. The seat of the municipality was the village Lagadia. It is considered a traditional settlement and is situated on a mountain slope, at about 1000 m elevation. It is 5 km east of Lefkochori, 10 km north of Dimitsana and 36 km northwest of Tripoli. The Greek National Road 74 (Pyrgos - Olympia - Tripoli) passes through the village.
The village has a school, a church, a post office, and a square. Kanellos Deligiannis and his brother Dimitrakis Deligiannis, two of the many heroes of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks in 1821, were born here.
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Langadia is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
Lagadia (Lagadia, Agios Athanasios, Agios Nikolaos, Kaloneri, Pteria, Xerovouni)
Lefkochori (Lefkochori, Fouskari, Touthoa)
Population history
1949: 3,333
1981: 1,188 (village)
1991: 671 (village), 1,993 (municipality)
2001: 704 (village), 1,363 (municipality)
2011: 355 (village), 504 (community), 636 (municipal unit)
Geography
= Climate
=Lagadia is located in central Peloponnese and has a Mediterranean climate with hot and dry summers and milder winters.
Photo gallery
See also
List of settlements in Arcadia
List of traditional settlements of Greece
References
External links
Association of Langadia Youth - "Drasis"
Association of Langadians in Atrica
Langadia, Gortynia
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Langadia, Arcadia
- Langadia
- Theodoros Diligiannis
- Michalis Mouroutsos
- Arcadia (regional unit)
- List of settlements in Arcadia
- Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos
- Dimitrakis Deligiannis
- Nikos Ploumpidis
- Nikolaos Chountis
