- Tripolis images from the past
- http://www.tripolis.gr
- http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/places/trip/tripoli.htm (in Greek)
- Weather in Tripoli at http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/16710.html or http://weather.pathfinder.gr/greece/peloponisos/tripolis.html (in Greek)
- http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/
|
|
Tripoli High Resolution ,Google Earth
Tripoli (Greek, Modern: Τρίπολη, Ancient/Katharevousa: -s), older form and Latin: Tripolis, rarely Tripolitsa, Tripolitza and Tripolizza is a city in the central part of the Peloponnesos, Greece, and the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia and the province of Mantineia which is the most populated province in Arcadia. The municipality is the largest city in the prefecture as well and presently one of the only growing places in Arcadia. The distance from Pyrgos is about 145 km E, 125 km E of Olympia, 144 km SE of Patras and ESE of Kalavryta, 78 km (old: 120 km) SW of Corinth and about 148 (old: 200 km) WSW of Athens, W of Argos and Nafplio, NW of Leonidi, N of Sparta, NNE of Kalamata, 33 km NE of Megalopoli and NE of Kyparissia, E of Stemnitsa and ESE of Dimitsana. In the Middle Ages, the place was known as Drobolitsa.
Tripolis, Satellite image
Division of the municipality of Tripolis , population 28976
Evandron is named after Evander / Evandros who according to Roman Mythology brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Rome sixty years before the Trojan War. He was one of the colonists from Pallantium / Pallantion a city close to the modern village of Pallantion. Only a few remains of Temples exist today. Pallantion was named after Pallas the son of Lycaon Makri is a mountain village (alt. 750 m), earlier known as Boleta Merkovouni is a small village 5 km N of Tripolis city. Historical population
The city was created by merging three parts, which is the origin of its name (from Greek τρεις πόλεις, meaning the three cities. Its main plazas are aligned with the main street and with a highway linking to Pyrgos and Patras. One of them is named Kennedy, the other is named Georgiou B' (George II). The southern part has its main street named Washington. The main section of the city is enclosed around the castle walls that were built during the Ottoman occupation of Greece. The city is surrounded by pine trees in the south and west, mount Mainalo (Maenalus) in the west while another mountain is 5 km E and fertile lands elsewhere. The closest mountain ridge of Mainalo is only about 1 km west.Wetlands used to dominate much of the area in the northeast. The industrial area is founded in the eastern part, formerly 100 m of the southern terminus of the superhighway, it is now near an interchange? where factories are founded. Tripoli is home to the two largest Armed Forces bootcamp centers of Greece, one for the Hellenic Army and one for the Hellenic Air Force 251 Army Training Battalion (Greek)
Transportation Tripoli was not bypassed until the 1980s, highways weren't bypassed then. It was GR-7 in the southeast and was the southern terminus of the toll freeway of E65. Later in 1999, Tripoli became bypasses to the east by creating a direst highway between Pyrgos and Athens. Now it is bypasses 10 km NE and E since 2001, the opening of the extension of the superhighway. History In 1829, members of the Greek scientific community were attended in Tripoli after its liberation.
Persons
Links
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||