Administrative Region : West Greece
Regional unit : Achaia
Tsivlos (Τσιβλός) Achaia
Tsivlos is a mountain village located at an altitude of 754m, 20 km southeast of Akrata. It is now a popular tourist destination due to the homonymous lake and the impressive mountainous landscape. Its population according to the 2011 census is 9 inhabitants[1].
History
Tsivlos appears as the settlement "Civlò" in the census of the Venetian Francesco Grimani in 1700 with 33 families (148 inhabitants)[2].
The area is generally characterized by the instability of the soil. Thus, on Sunday 24 March 1913 a large volume of rocks and soil detached from the neighboring mountain Gerakaris, sweeping away the village of Sylivaina, killing 4 people and blocking the Krathi River[3]. The river's waters flooded the greater part of Tsivlos, creating a lake with a depth of 80 meters and a surface area of over 200 acres. The residents of the two villages (Tsivlos and Sylivaina) had abandoned them 2 days before the disaster due to small subsidences and landslides. According to tradition, they saw a cypress tree that was leaning, which they considered a bad omen and abandoned their homes, all except an old woman in Sylivaina, who refused to follow them. The residents were moved to the villages of Tragano (now Neos Erineos), Sylivainiotika, Kamares, Mourla (now Rododafni) where they were given plots of land by the state.
The village today
Today, Tsivlos consists of a few houses, a guesthouse, 2-3 taverns and the historic semi-underground church of Agios Athanasios. The tops of large trees and stones from the submerged houses can still be seen in the lake. Quite close, a hydroelectric station was also built which, fortunately, did not alter the natural environment. The area is suitable for many activities such as camping, rowing, 4X4 routes and hiking.
References
EL.STAT. - Permanent population of Greece. Census 2011
Vassilis Panagiotopoulos, Population and Settlements of the Peloponnese: 13th-18th century, trans. Christina Agriantoni, Historical Archive - Commercial Bank of Greece, Athens 1987.
Embros, issue 26/3/1913, p. 4.
Sources
Results of the Population-Housing Census 2011 concerning the Permanent Population of the Country, Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, vol. 2, p. 3465 (December 28, 2012).
Vasilis Panagiotopoulos, Population and Settlements of the Peloponnese: 13th-18th Century, trans. Christina Agriantoni, ed. Angeliki Kokkou, Historical Archive - Commercial Bank of Greece, Athens 1987. ISBN 978-000-7059-21-8.
Bibliography
Louloudis, Theodoros H. (2010). Achaia. Settlements, settlers, self-government. Patras: Prefectural Enterprise for Cultural Development of South-Eastern Achaia.
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