Rio (Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of: Ρίο, Río, formerly Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning the Archaic , Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD) periods of ancient Greece and the ancient world. It is predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek. Its Hellenistic phase is known as Koine (& Ῥίον, Rhíon; Latin Latin or sometimes Roman is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Although often considered a dead language, in view of the fact that it has no native, fluent speakers, Latin continues to be taught in schools and has been, and currently is, used in the process of new word production in modern languages from many: Rhion or Rhium) is a suburban town north of Patras Patras is Greece's fourth largest urban centre and the capital of the prefecture of Achaea, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens. The city is built at the foothills of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the Gulf of Patras, Greece Greece (English: /ˈɡriːs/ ; Greek: Ελλάδα, Elláda, IPA: [eˈlaða] ( listen); Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellás, IPA: [helːás]), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, IPA: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on, with a population of around 13,000. Downtown is about 7 km N of Patras from GR-8. Elevation is about 10 m downtown, and 20 to 50 m in its east. Many of the houses are lined up between the beach, the rail and the freeway. A view of Aetoloacarnania (Acarnania), northwestern Peloponnese The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula (technically an island since the 1893 construction of the Corinth Canal) and region in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. During the late Middle Ages and the Ottoman era, the peninsula was known as the Morea (Greek: Μωρέας, colloq. including Patras Patras is Greece's fourth largest urban centre and the capital of the prefecture of Achaea, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens. The city is built at the foothills of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the Gulf of Patras and southwestern Phokis, along with the Panachaicus mountains surrounded with a scenery, and mountains are surrounded in its east. The boundary with the community of Aktaio is by the highway east of the town centre.
The community includes Kastellokampos or Kastellokambos in the south and Agios Georgios slightly south. Its downtown core is inland near Somerset Street. The town hall is probably there. The population of that sector is about 500.
Rio's mayor is now Christos Liakopoulos.
The community has existed for around 3,000 years (range), and has fought a couple of battles in 425 BC, and during medieval times.
Agriculture and farmland used to dominate Rion until Patras' luxurious houses, a hospital and a university, reached the area in the 1970s or the 1980s, which only half of the community has farmlands in this day and continuing shrinking.
Rion is covered with sandy beaches in the west with a scenic local beach road lengthening for about 6 km. In the middle, a fortress, and a harbor located northwest of downtown. The harbor offers ferry service to Antirrion which, for the past 50 years, has enabled traffic to flow between the Peloponnese and Western Mainland Greece. The traffic through the ferries is quite heavy, including a lot of trucks. The ferries already been replaced by the Rio-Antirio Bridge The Rio-Antirrio bridge , officially the Charilaos Trikoupis bridge after the statesman who first envisioned it, is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese to Antirrio on mainland Greece. Not far from the port, a small oil refinery situated 800 m north and carries little production. Oil trucks are not allowed on the bridge and the ferry service is both regular and an economic alternative to the bridge.
Rio Beach includes Camping Rio Beach is its campground founded west of the centre. Its distances from Alissos is about 20 to 25 km.
The University of Patras is in its east and is bounded by a river in the south and southeast and a hospital is founded there, and a toll.
Hills and a mountain can be seen over the community's northeastern boundary.
Farmlands dominate the east and the west and used to dominate the southeastern part. Pastures and groves are common in the area. White Muscats are grown in this area and in Patras and wineries are also one of the main production of the local agriculture.
The municipality's population is about 10,000 and includes other communities including Aktaio (Actium), Kastritsi, Agios Vasileios, and Psathopyrgos in the north. The community and the municipality is bounded in the south with a river.
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Etymology
The name Rio derives from the Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of "ῥίον" (rhion), generally meaning "jutting part",[2] perhaps from "ῥίς" (rhis), "nose", but also "spur of land".[3] The earliest attested form of the word "ῥίον" (rhion) is the Mycenaean Greek Mycenaean is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 12th centuries BC, before the hypothesised Dorian invasion which was often cited as the terminus post quem for the coming of the Greek language to Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first ri-jo-no, from ri-jo, meaning "cape", written in Linear B Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. It predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries and seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean civilization. Most of the tablets inscribed in Linear B were found in Knossos, Cydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae. The succeeding period, known as syllabic script.[4]
Nearest places (communes)
- Aktaio (Actium), north and northeast
- Ano Kastritsi, S
- Patras Patras is Greece's fourth largest urban centre and the capital of the prefecture of Achaea, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens. The city is built at the foothills of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the Gulf of Patras (south)
Communes
- Agios Vasileios
- Aktaio
- Ano Kastritsi
- Arachovitika (Arachovitika, Kato Arachovitika)
- Argyra
- Drepano
- Kato Kastritsi (Kato Kastritsi, Magoula)
- Pititsa
- Platani
- Psathopyrgos (Psathopyrgos, Kato Rodini)
- Rio
- Sella
Historical population
| Year | Municipal district | Municipality |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 2,012 | - |
| 1991 | 3,496 | 10,280 |
| 2001 | - | 13,291 |
See also
References
- ^ "Δείτε τη Διοικητική Διαίρεση" (in Greek). Hellenic Interior Ministry. www.ypes.gr. http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/D_diairesi.xls. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
- ^ ῥίον, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library
- ^ ῥίς, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library
- ^ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
External links
- Municipality of Rio (Greek) (English)
- GTP - Rio
- GTP - Municipality of Rio
- GTP - Ancient Rhium
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| Agios Vasileios | Aktaio | Ano Kastritsi | Arachovitika | Argyra | Drepano | Kato Kastritsi | Pititsa | Platani | Psathopyrgos | Rio | Sella |
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