Paos
village in Achaea, Greece
Paos (Greek: Πάος, before 1927: Σκούπι - Skoupi) is a village and a community in Achaea, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Paia. The community includes the small villages Dechounaiika, Palaios Paos, Potamia and Vesini. It is 25 km southwest of Kalavryta, and 50 km northwest of Tripoli.
Population
History
The location of the ancient city Paos has been found near the modern village, of which the remainder remains to be excavated. Ancient artifacts and remains of the walls have been found. It had a perimeter of 516 m, and had an almost triangular shape with its point facing west with its acropolis in the middle and some ancient buildings to the south, its springs used to be to the northeast with an aqueduct north of the old city. It was said that Euphorion from Paos gave lodging to the Dioscuri, and ever since kept open house for all men. Paos in later years annexed with the neighboring Kleitor. Pausanias wrote that Paos was a ruined settlement near the city of Seirai.
“Paos” enters the record as village in Achaea, Greece. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paos, village and Achaea can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Paos” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paos, village and Achaea provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21560674. Authority coordinates are 37.842, 21.975. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1927.
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This entry incorporates text from “Paos” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.