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Tropaia

subdivision of Gortynia Municipality, Greece

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1001537 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tropaia (Greek: Τρόπαια) is a village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 187.228 km2. As of 2021 the municipal unit has a population of 2,217. The village is located near the Ladon Lake.

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“Tropaia” enters the record as subdivision of Gortynia Municipality, Greece. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tropaia, subdivision and Gortynia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tropaia, subdivision and Gortynia.
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“Tropaia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tropaia, subdivision and Gortynia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1001537. VIAF identifies the subject as 144944410. Authority coordinates are 37.733, 21.950. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tropaia” 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.