Kalavryta

Kalavryta Καλάβρυτα
Kalavryta, as seen from the memorial site.
Kalavryta
Location within the region
Coordinates: 38°2′N 22°7′E / 38.033°N 22.117°E / 38.033; 22.117Coordinates: 38°2′N 22°7′E / 38.033°N 22.117°E / 38.033; 22.117
Country	Greece
Administrative region	West Greece
Regional unit	Achaea
Area
• Municipality	1,058.2 km2 (408.6 sq mi)
• Municipal unit	531.8 km2 (205.3 sq mi)
Lowest elevation	758 m (2,487 ft)
Population (2011)
• Municipality	11,045
• Municipality density	10/km2 (27/sq mi)
• Municipal unit	6,011
• Municipal unit density	11/km2 (29/sq mi)
Community
• Population	1,829 (2011)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	250 01
Area code(s)	26940
Vehicle registration	ΑΧ
Website	www.depapoz.gr/site/

Kalavryta (Greek: Καλάβρυτα) is a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece. The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos, 24 kilometres (15 miles) south of Aigio, 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Patras and 62 km (39 miles) northwest of Tripoli. Notable mountains in the municipality are Mount Erymanthos in the west and Aroania or Chelmos in the southeast. Kalavryta is the southern terminus of the Diakopto-Kalavryta rack railway, built by Italian engineers between 1885 and 1895.

Kalavryta is built near the ancient city of Cynaetha.

During the late Middle Ages, the town was the centre of the Barony of Kalavryta within the Frankish Principality of Achaea, until it was reconquered by the Byzantines in the 1270s. After that it remained under Byzantine control until the fall of the Despotate of the Morea to the Ottoman Turks in 1460. With the exception of a 30-year interlude of Venetian control, the town remained under Turkish rule until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, in whose early stages Kalavryta figures prominently: it was here that on 21 March 1821 the flag of the revolt was raised at the monastery of Agia Lavra by bishop Germanos III of Old Patras.