Dimitsana is a village and a former municipality in Arcadia

Arcadia

Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...

, Peloponnese, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia

Gortynia

Gortynia is a municipality in the Arcadia peripheral unit, Peloponnese Periphery, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Dimitsana.-Municipality:...

, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is built on the ruins of the ancient town Teuthis

Teuthis

Teuthis was an ancient Arcadian city in the location of modern Dimitsana. In Greek mythology, a king of this city also bore the name Teuthis....

. Its population is 730.

It is located SE of Olympia

Olympia, Greece

Olympia , a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. Both games were held every Olympiad , the Olympic Games dating back possibly further than 776 BC...

 and Pyrgos, SW of Vytina

Vytina

Vytina is a 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 seat of the municipality was the village Vytina. Its inhabitants are known as Vytiniots. Greek...

, 60 km W of Tripoli

Tripoli, Greece

Tripoli is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia and the centre of the municipality of Tripolis, pop...

, W of Megalopoli

Megalopolis, Greece

Megalópoli is a town in the western part of the peripheral unit of Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located in the same site as ancient Megalopolis . "Megalopolis" is a Greek word for Great city. When it was founded, in 371 BC, it was the first urbanization in rustic and primitive Arcadia. In...

 and Karytaina

Karytaina

Karytaina is a village in Arcadia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Gortyna. Karytaina had a 2001 population of 204 for the village and 257 for the municipal district...

 and NE of Andritsaina

Andritsaina

Andritsaina is a town and a former municipality in Elis, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Andritsaina-Krestena, of which it is a municipal unit...

.

The village has a school, a historical library, several churches, a post office, a water-power museum, an open amphitheater, hotels and a square (plateia

Plateia

Plateia or platia is the Greek word for town square. Most Greek and Cypriot cities have several town squares which are a point of reference in travelling and guiding...

). The village is located on the valley which has a small creek to its west and the residential area covers the eastern part of a mountain. Another mountain is located to its west. The area north and east of Dimitsana is covered with pine forests. Deforested mountains cover the area west and south of Dimitsaina.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Dimitsana is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

• Dimitsana (Dimitsana, Karkalou
  Karkalou
  Karkalou is a settlement in the municipality of Dimitsana, Arcadia prefecture, Greece on the junctions of the GR-74 and the road connecting Dimitsana and Megalopoli. Its 2001 population was 73...
  
  , Moni Aimyalon i Filosofou, Palaiochori)
• Melissopetra
• Panagia
• Rados
• Rizospilia (Rizospilia, Kato Rizospilia)
• Zatouna
  Zatouna
  Zatouna is a Greek settlement in the west-southwest of Arcadia. It is in the municipal unit of Dimitsana in the Peloponnese. Zatouna is connected with the road linking Dimitsana as well as the Karytaina-Dimitsana Road. Zatouna had a 2001 population of 75 for the village and 203 for the municipal...
  
   (Zatouna, Vlongos, Markos)
• Zigovisti

Population history

Year	Village	Municipal district	Municipality
1981	-	760	-
1991	-	739	1,529
2001	611	730	1,337

Notable people

• Germanos, metropolitan bishop of Patras
  Germanos of Patras
  Germanos was an Orthodox Metropolitan of Patras.Germanos was born in Dimitsana, northwestern Arcadia, Peloponnese...
  
   (1771-1826)
• Gregory V
  Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople
  Gregory V was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808 and from 1818 to 1821. He was responsible for much restoration work to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St George, which had been badly damaged by fire in 1738...
  
   (1746-1821), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Theophanes III, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Tassos Gritsopoulos, historian
• Archbishop Ieremias of Gortyna

External links

• Municipality of Dimitsana (official site, pages in Greek and in English)
• Dimitsana
• Dimitsana in Gortynia (in Greek)
• GTP - Dimitsana
• GTP - Dimitsana municipality

See also

• Communities of Arcadia

	North: Lagkadia Lagkadia, Arcadia Lagkadia , is a 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. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. The village is connected by GR-74...
West: Iraia Iraia Iraia is 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. It consists of 27 villages. Population 3,063 . The seat of the municipality was in Paloumpa. The municipality is named...	Dimitsana	East: Falanthos Falanthos Falanthos is a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Tripoli, of which it is a municipal unit... , Megalopoli
	South: Gortyna Gortyna, Arcadia Gortyna , is a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Megalopoli, of which it is a municipal unit. Its seat was in the village Karytaina... , Trikolonoi Trikolonoi Trikolonoi is 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 includes the villages of Stemnitsa , Syrna, Pavlia, Palamari and Elliniko. Stemnitsa is...