thumb|Lampeia (Divri) village, partial view of village.
thumb|Lampeia (Divri) village, partial view of village.
thumb|Elementary school in Lampia (Divri), built in 1907 with a donation of Andreas Syngrou.
Lampeia (Greek: Λάμπεια, before 1928: Δίβρη - Divri, between 1928 and 1929: Πρινόφυτον - Prinofyton) is a mountain village, a community and a former municipality in Elis, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Archaia Olympia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 72.447 km<sup>2</sup>. The community includes the village Amygdali.
Lampeia is situated south of Mount Erymanthos, in the valley of a tributary of the river Erymanthos. Its elevation is 802 m above sea level. Due to its inaccessibility, Lampeia saw few invaders. Also the Ottomans stayed in the lower areas for strategic reasons. The Zoodochos Pigi monastery in Lampeia was a centre of Greek culture and education. Several inhabitants fought in the Greek War of Independence, and some well known families of politicians (Petralias, Panagoulis, Stefanopoulos, Zafeiropoulos) came from Divri/Lampeia.
Lampeia was created as one of the eight municipalities of the Elis prefecture in the 1830s, and was disbanded in 1913. This municipality was larger than the present municipal unit, and included several villages now in adjacent municipal units (among others Koumanis, Antroni and Klindia). The municipality was recreated under the Capodistrian Plan in the late-1990s, and became a subdivision of the municipality of Archaia Olympia in 2011.
Notable people
- Pavlos Matesis, writer
See also
- List of settlements in Elis
References
External links
- MyDivri.gr A great site with news, photos and historical information on Divri (Δίβρη)/Lambia (Λαμπεία) (in Greek and English)
- Antroni - Labeia (in Greek)
- Video from the ERT program Traveling in Greece (Menoume Ellada) shown on ET1