Levidi is a small town 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 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...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The village sits on the eastern part of the slope of the Mainalo

Mainalo

The Mainalo , is a mountain range that spans about 15 to 20 from north to south and from east to west from 5 to 10 km...

 mountains. The pine forests are surrounding the town. The valley which contains potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

 and mixed farming is about 500 m lower which extends up to near Kandila

Kandila, Arcadia

Kandila is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Levidi, Arcadia, Greece. Situated between the Oligyrtos or Skipiza, Kyllini or Ziria and the Trachy mountains. As of 2001, it had a population of 846 for the village and 898 for the community, which includes the village Diakopi...

 and is east of Levidi. The Greek National Road 74

Greek National Road 74

Greek National Road 74 is a highway linking Pyrgos, Olympia, Tripoli and GR-7/E65. The west to east highway runs in the western and the central part of the Peloponnese. The highway begins in Pyrgos and into the hills and Olympia and used to ran through narrow roads which now bypasses Pyrgos and...

 (Tripoli - Pyrgos) passes through Levidi. It is located about 130 km SE 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...

, S of Stymfalia

Stymfalia

Stymphalia is a village and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sikyona, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 2,852 . The seat of the municipality was in Kalianoi, 41 km southwest of the town of...

, about 90 km SW of Corinth, W of Argos

Argos

Argos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 11 kilometres from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour...

, WNW of Sparta

Sparta

Sparta or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. It emerged as a political entity around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population. From c...

, N of Kalamata

Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...

, NNE of Kyparissia

Kyparissia

Kyparissia is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Trifylia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The town proper has around 5,708 inhabitants. The town is located on Greek National Road 9,...

 and E of Pyrgos.

Subdivisions

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

• Chotoussa (pop: 108)
• Daras
  Dara, Greece
  Dara , older Daras is a community in the municipality of Levidi in the northern part of the prefecture of Arcadia.-Distances:*NW of Levidi*NE of GR-33*43 km NW of Tripoli-Nearest places:*Komi...
  
   (pop: 474)
• Kandila
  Kandila, Arcadia
  Kandila is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Levidi, Arcadia, Greece. Situated between the Oligyrtos or Skipiza, Kyllini or Ziria and the Trachy mountains. As of 2001, it had a population of 846 for the village and 898 for the community, which includes the village Diakopi...
  
   (pop: 898, Kandila, Diakopi, Moni Kandilas)
• Kardaras
  Kardaras
  Kardaras is a village in the municipal unit of Levidi, Arcadia, Greece located 20 km NNW from Tripoli. As of 2001, it had a population of 41 for the village. The GR-74 and the northbound GR-33 is 3 km northeast...
  
   (pop: 47)
• Komi (pop: 97)
• Levidi (pop: 1,219)
• Limni (pop: 260)
• Orchomenos
  Orchomenus (Arcadia)
  Orchomenus or Orchomenos was an ancient city of Arcadia, Greece, called by Thucydides the Arcadian Orchomenus , to distinguish it from the Boeotian town. Its ruins are near the modern village of Orchomenos .-Situation:It was situated in a plain surrounded on every side by mountains...
  
   (pop: 16, Orchomenos, Roussis)
• Palaiopyrgos (pop: 325)
• Panagitsa (pop: 115)
• Vlacherna (pop: 568)

Information

It was the site of several battles during the Greek War of Independence

Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between...

 from the Ottoman Empire

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 surname Tsardikos originated in Levidi.

Historical population

Year	Municipal district	Municipality
1981	1,442	-
1991	1,142	4,334
2003	1,219	4,131

External links

• http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/places/lebidi.htm
• In Greek:
  • http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/places/lebidi.htm
  • http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/engversion/places/lebidi.htm