Aroania () (also known as "Sopoto") is a village and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Kalavryta, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 173.804 km2. The seat of administration was in the town of Psofida. The municipality is named after the village and the mountain.
Subdivisions The municipal unit Aroania is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): Agrampela (Agrampela, Platanitsa) Agridi Alestaina Anastasi (Anastasi, Moni Agion Theodoron) Aroania Desino Kamenianoi (Kamenianoi, Drovolovo) Lechouri (Lechouri, Kerasea, Selli) Livartzi (Livartzi, Livadi, Livartzino) Plaka Psofida (Psofida, Ano Psofida, Ano Tripotama, Kato Tripotama, Tripotama, Vasiliki) Seires (Seires, Agioi Theodoroi, Agios Georgios, Krini, Thomaiika)
Transportation
The historic EO111, which ran between Tripoli and (south of Patras) from 1928 to 1955, used to pass through Aroania, Agridi and Tripotama.
Notable people Ioannis Sofianopoulos (1887–1951), politician
Population Year Population 1991 2,315 2001 2,551 2011 1,619 2021 1,259
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