Triklino

Triklino (Greek Τρίκλινο (n. sg. ) ) Is a small Greek village in the countryside Aetolia, Administrative Region of Western Greece, with 211 inhabitants. It is located south of the northern ridge of Kremasta Lake, which impounds the Achelous in his original course direction. Triklino is also a locality ( topiki kinotita τοπκή κοινότητα ) in the municipality of Inachus the community Amfilohia and consists of two settlements: the same village and the settlement Ambeli.

The first mention of Triklino dated to 1840, when the village is mentioned under the name Priantza as a settlement of the municipality Idomeni Valtou. Already in 1845 the settlement was renamed " Priantsa ". Priantsa formed with the neighboring locality Alevrada a municipality ( Kinotita ) until 31 August 1911 when Alevrada was cleaved from the community. Then Triklino formed to the Greek local government reform in 1997 (effective 1 January 1999), an independent municipality with the neighboring locality Ambeli. As part of local government reform, the municipality Triklino was dissolved and merged with other localities and previously independent villages of the municipality Inachos ( Δήμος Ινάχου ). Together with Inachos it gets in the administrative reform in 2010 into the new municipality Amfilohia.

As a rural settlement structure had Triklino 1981 after 1991 experienced a population decline of more than one third of the population (1981: 389 inhabitants in 1991: 229 inhabitants ). In the following ten years the population of Triklino increased to 288 inhabitants.

From Triklino comes Giannikis Kasvikis, which fell as a troop leader in the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) on February 28, 1826 on the small island in the lagoon of Messolonghi dolmas. Also from Triklino came the abbot of the monastery Tatarna, Stefanos Papadimitriou, and the brothers Charilaos, Christoforos and Alexandros Papaioannou, which in the Greek resistance against the German occupation during the Second World War made ​​a name for himself.