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Lagkadia (Greek: Λαγκάδια), is a village and a municipality located in northwestern Arcadia. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. The village is connected by GR-74. Throughout the town from the bridge and westward, the highway is narrow and has only one lane. GR-33 is about 50 km SW. It is located E of 62 km E of Olympia and 82 km E of Pyrgos, NW of Megalopoli and Dimitsana and W of Tripoli. The village has a school, a church, a post office, and a square (plateia). The village is located on the valley which has a small creek to its south and the residential area covers the southern part of a mountain which its elevaion is about 1,100 m. Another mountain is located to the south, totaling four mountaintops. Forests are founded to the east while rocky terrains and some arable land and deforested parts cover most of the south, west and north of Lagkadia. It is known for its local weaving mill.
It used to had builders that made stone-built mansions to all of the peninsula with the exception of the Mani peninsula. Until the 1960s, much of the village did not have electricity and until the 1980s, most of the houses were stone-built Heavy rains plundered Fouskari near Lagkadia on February 13 of 2003 and a day later on February 14, some houses were damaged by torrential downpours. The population of the village of Lagkadia was 704 in 2001. In the year 1949 it was 3333. Division of the municipality with a population 1363 (in 2001)
Persons Nikos Ploumbidis, a communist, executed 14 August 1954. Links:
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