Achaea

This article is about the Greek prefecture. For other meanings see Achaia (disambiguation).

Achaia (Greek Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Αχαΐας Periferiakí Enótita Achaías) is a landscape in the northwestern Peloponnese and one of the three regional districts of the Greek region of Western Greece. Achaia was established as a prefecture from the division of the Achaia and Elis prefecture, which had existed since 1833, but lost this status with the 2010 administrative reform. As a regional council, Achaia has no political significance apart from the allocation of seats in the regional council. The centre of the area is the large city of Patras with 171,484 inhabitants.

Achaia comprises the municipalities of Dytiki Achaia, Egialia, Erymanthos, Kalavryta and Patras.

The Achaeans or Achaians were one of the main tribes of Ancient Greece. They also settled the Phthiotis. Homer uses the term Achaeans - along with Danaans and Argives - for the Greeks fighting against Troy per se.

The ancient landscape stretched along the northern coast of the Peloponnese from Cape Avgo in the east to Cape Araxos in the west. Later Achaia was part and namesake of the Roman province of Achaea.

Until 1943, Mega Spileo (Greek Μεγα Σπήλαιο) was the largest and richest monastery in Greece.

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In the port of Patras

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The wineryAchaia
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Memorial for the massacre of the German Wehrmacht 1943 in Kalavryta

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Near Ano Lousi, north of Kastria, Achaia

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Mycenaean fortification Teichos Dymaion


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