# Aroania

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For the eponymous mountain see [Aroania (mountain)](/source/Aroania_(mountain)).

**Aroania** (Greek: Αροάνια) (also known as "Sopoto") is a village and a former [municipality](/source/Communities_and_Municipalities_of_Greece) in [Achaea](/source/Achaea), [West Greece](/source/West_Greece), [Greece](/source/Greece). Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality [Kalavryta](/source/Kalavryta), of which it is a municipal unit.[1] The municipal unit has an area of 173.804 km2.[2] The seat of administration was in the town of [Psofida](/source/Psofida). The municipality is named after the village and the [mountain](/source/Aroania_(mountain)).

## Subdivisions

The municipal unit Aroania is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

- [Agrampela](/source/Agrampela,_Achaea) (Agrampela, Platanitsa)
- [Agridi](/source/Agridi,_Achaea)
- [Alestaina](/source/Alestaina)
- [Anastasi](/source/Anastasi,_Greece) (Anastasi, Moni Agion Theodoron)
- Aroania
- [Desino](/source/Desino)
- [Kamenianoi](/source/Kamenianoi) (Kamenianoi, Drovolovo)
- [Lechouri](/source/Lechouri) (Lechouri, Kerasea, Selli)
- [Livartzi](/source/Livartzi) (Livartzi, Livadi, Livartzino)
- [Plaka](/source/Plaka,_Achaea)
- [Psofida](/source/Psofida) (Psofida, Ano Psofida, Ano Tripotama, Kato Tripotama, Tripotama, Vasiliki)
- [Seires](/source/Seires) (Seires, Agioi Theodoroi, Agios Georgios, Krini, Thomaiika)

## Notable people

- [Ioannis Sofianopoulos](/source/Ioannis_Sofianopoulos) (1887–1951), politician

## Population

Year Population 1991 2,315 2001 2,551 2011 1,619 2021 1,259

## References

1. ["ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities"](http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.) (in Greek). [Government Gazette](/source/Government_Gazette_(Greece))

1. ["Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from [the original](http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf) on 2015-09-21.

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