Administrative Region : West Greece
Regional unit : Achaia
Vela (Βελά) Achaia
Vela (until 1928: Ta Vella[2]; until 1940: Vella[3]) is a mountainous village in the municipality of Aigialeia, Achaia prefecture. According to the 2021 census, the village has a population of 56 permanent residents[4].
Location
Vela is built at an altitude of 838 meters, on the slopes of Marmari peak of the Helmos mountain range, southeast[2] of the prefecture's capital, Patras and Aigio and northeast of Kalavryta.
General and historical information
The settlement is mentioned since before the Ottoman period[2] and according to a local tradition it owes its name to the Byzantine city of Epirus, Vella, whose inhabitants are said to have settled in the area. Vella is mentioned in 1853 in the second volume of "Hellenic" by Iakovos Rizos Ragavis as belonging to the municipality of Felloi in the province of Kalavryta, while its population amounted to 378 inhabitants[5]. In the following decades, the permanent population of Vella decreased sharply as the majority of the inhabitants - who worked mainly as farmers and livestock breeders - moved during the winter months to the wider area of Aigialeia, with the result that during the 1920 census only eight inhabitants were counted in the settlement[6].
Administratively, Vella was placed in the Kalavryta district of the prefecture of Achaia and Elis in 1835, while with the final separation of the prefecture, it was annexed to Achaia. In 1944, it was placed in the Aigialeia district and in 1997, after the changes that came to the local government through the Kapodistrias plan, it was designated a local district of the municipality of Aigeira. With the implementation of the Kallikratis program, it was placed administratively under the municipality of Aigialeia[3].
The central church of the village is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and is celebrated every year on August 15. The bishop of Ilia and Oleni, Damaskinos Spiliotopoulos (1848 - 1917), was born in Vella[7].
Demographic evolution
Census 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 8[6] 178[2] 141[2] 41[2] 38[2] 27[2] 72[2] 73[2] 42[8] 23[9]
References
(Greek) Database of the Hellenic Statistical Authority.
Michael Stamatelatos - Fotini Vamva Stamatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, Volume 1, p. 129.
«Administrative changes of settlements of local governments: Vela N. Achaias». eetaa.gr. Greek Society for Local Development and Self-Government. Retrieved 12 October 2016.[dead link]
"Vela (η) Municipality of Aigialeia Local Community of Velas. Achaia – Peloponnese". dhmos.gr. Municipalities, towns and villages of Greece. Retrieved 12 October 2016.[dead link]
Iakovos R. Ragkavis, Greek, In Athens, 1853, Volume 2, p. 203.
Modern Encyclopedia of Eleftheroudakis, fifth edition, updated with a supplement per volume, Encyclopedic Editions N. Nikas and Co. E.E., Athens, volume five, p. 106.
Religious and Moral Encyclopedia, volume 11, Athens 1965, pp. 915 - 916.
E.S.Y.E. - Resident Population of Greece. Census 2001
Sources
Results of the Population-Housing Census 2011 concerning the Resident Population of the Country, Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, vol. 2, p. 3465 (December 28, 2012).
E.S.Y.E. - Resident Population of Greece. Census 2001, Athens 2004. ISBN 960-86704-8-9.
Bibliography
Louloudis, Theodoros H. (2010). Achaia. Settlements, settlers, self-government. Patras: Prefectural Enterprise for Cultural Development of South-East Achaia.
| Municipal unit Aigeira |
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| Community Aigeira |
| Aigeira Αιγείρα, η) |
| Community Aiges |
| Aiges (Αιγές, οι) |
| Almyros (Αλμυρός, ο) |
| Lampinos (Λαμπινός, ο) |
| Community Ampelokipoi |
| Ampelokipoi (Αμπελόκηποι, οι) |
| Paliokatona (Παλιοκάτωνα, τα) |
| Pimpaiika (Πιμπαίικα, τα) |
| Community Vela |
| Vela (Βελά, η) |
| Community Exochi |
| Exochi (Εξοχή, η) |
| Community Monastiri |
| Monastiri (Μοναστήρι, το) |
| Community Oasi |
| Oasi (Όασις, η) |
| Community Periothorio |
| Perithorio (Περιθώριο, το) |
| Community Seliana |
| Seliana (Σελιάνα, η) |
| Community Sinevro |
| Sinevro (Σινεβρό, το) |
| Community Chrysanthio |
| Kasaneva (Κασάνεβα, η ) |
| Chrysanthi (Χρυσάνθιο, το) |
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