Zavlani Ζαβλάνι
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
Distance from downtown:
Population: (2001) Total Density Rank	about 3,000 to 4,000 -/km²
Population percentage (2005):	about 3%
Elevation:  -lowest:  -centre:  -highest:	40 m (west) about 70 m (centre) about 200 to 300 m (east)
Area/distance code:	11-0030-2610

Zavlani (Greek: Ζαβλάνι) also with the second an accented is a neighbourhood in the northeastern part of 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...

, 4 km direct and 5 km via road from the downtown core. The neighbourhood bears the football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club team named A.P.S. Zavlani and plays in the prefectural fourth division.

Nearest neighbourhoods

• Sychaina, north
• Gouva
  Gouva, Patras
  Gouva , is a neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the city of Patras, 4 km direct and 5 km via road from the downtown core. Gouva is linked with a mountain road and with Amerikis Street...
  
  , south
• Anthoupoli
  Anthoupoli, Patras
  Anthoupoli is a neighbourhood in the northern part of the city of Patras. The area was built from the area of the new archeological museum which is built from the sea and saw new subdivisions...
  
  , west

Information

The name is the corruption the name Zavr(l)os (Ζαβρ(λ)ος), during the Ottoman 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 was settled by Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

ns. Other origin of the name is in thae are it had a family name Zavlanis in which is descended from the island of Zakynthos

Zakynthos

Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...

.

Geography

Its geography is in a hilly setting and are residential, the forests are founded to the north. Its length is by 800 m to 1 km and its width is by 500 to 800 m. Its streets are approximately 8 to 10 km long of which 3 km are main, the remainder are residential.

History

The area were made up farmlands until when housing developments arrived in the 1960s and the 1970s, the housing and its population slowed in the late-1980s. Its main production consisted of olive, cattle and fruits and vegetables as well as other crops and the populationm before the arrival of the housing developments were rural, today they are manufacturing and services especially outside the neighbourhood. Electricity and radio were introduced in the 1960s. Television arrived in the 1970s and computers and Internet in the late-1990s.

Panorama

Its panorama includes the Panachaiko

Panachaiko

The Panachaikon or Panachaiko , also known as Vodias in medieval times and until the early 20th century, is a mountain range that spans about 20 km in length from north to south , and 15 to 20 km from east to west...

 mountains to the east, more to the south and southeast including Omplos

Omplos

Omplos is a mountain in the northern part of Achaea, Greece. It rises 720 m above sea level. The mountain is shaped like a sugar-loaf, with a 65° slope. The mountain can be reached by three unused roads, one that leads almost to the top of the mountain, one linking to Ovrya in the West, and...

 and Varasova

Varasova

Varasova or Varassova mountain is a mountain range dominating the northern part of the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture in western Greece. Its length is approximately 7 km long from northwest to southeast and its width is approximately 2 km wide from southeast to northwest...

 and Arakynthos

Arakynthos

Arakynthos is a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Agrinio, of which it is a municipal unit. It consists of the villages of Ano Kerasovo, Kato Kerasovo, Zevgaraki, Papadates , Mataranga and Grammatikou....

 to the west and the north seeing the Fokida prefecture, it cannot see the mountains to the east because it is blocked by its nearest mountains.

Other

Zavlani has a few schools, a lyceum (secondary school), a gymnasium (high school), a few churches and a few squares (plateies

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...

).