Achaea

Achaia ( modern Greek Αχαΐα, even Achaia ) is a landscape on the northwest Peloponnese and one of the three regional districts of the Greek region Western Greece. Achaia was established from the division of Achaia and Elis existing since 1833 as the Prefecture Prefecture, lost with the administrative reform in 2010, however this status. As Regional Achaia has apart from the allocation of seats in the Regional Council no political significance. Center of the region is the city of Patras with 171 484 inhabitants.

Achaia includes the municipalities Dytiki Achaia, Egialia, Erymanthos, Kalavryta and Patras.

The Achaeans or Achaeans were one of the main tribes of ancient Greece and Homer synonym for the struggling Greeks against Troy in itself. They settled the Phthiotis.

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

By 1943 Megaspiläon (Greek Μεγα Σπήλαιον, large den ') was the largest and richest monastery in Greece.

Pictures

• The Rio Antirrio bridge connects Achaia with Etoloakarnania
• In the port of Patras
• Memorial for the massacre of the German Wehrmacht in 1943 in Kalavryta
• In Kato Lousi, north of Kastria, Achaia