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Åñýìáíèïò Þ Ùëïíüò

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Mount Erymanthos (Greek: Åñýìáíèïò, Latin and older form: Erymanthus) is a densely mountain range south of Patras in the middle of the Achaia prefecture. The mountains is also called Olonos (Ùëïíüò). Historically it was in northwestern Arcadia and was the second tallest in the historic Arcadia, the northern portion belonged to the historic Achaea. It is the fourth tallest mountain in the Peloponnese peninsula with an elevation of 2,224 m and is named Olenos or Olonos. The summit is located by the prefectural boundary of the Ilia. In the south, the Achaia-Ilia prefectural boundary is situated and lasts for about 25 to 30 km.

The mountain are heavily forested around its edges and its elevation ranges from 150 m to the north up to 800 to 1,000 m except for the south and are filled with pine, olives, cedars, birches? and spruce trees. Barren land and grasslands varies from 1,000 m up to 1,600 m and unvegetated portions up to the summit, it is also forested on the other side. Faultlines are rarely located on the mountain. Other mountain ranges connected or included includes Kallifoni and Lampeia (Divri) to the southwest. Other mountaintops includes Moungila or Mougila (Ìïõããßëá) at 2,169 m, Profitis Ilias (ÐñïöÞôçò Çëßáò) at 2,124 m, Pyrgakos or Pirgakos (ÐõñãÜêïò) at 2,050 m, one at 1,923 m, I Psili Tourla at 1,891 m, Lepida (Ëåðßäá) at (1,541) m, Melissovouni (Ìåëéóóïâïýíé meaning the mountain of bees) at 1,461 m and Agios Athanasios (¶ãéïò ÁèáíÜóéïò) at 1,219 m. From the mountain is the source of Pineios to the southwest, Selinous to the east, Erymanthos to the south, Peiros and Parapeiros to the southeast. It is also part of the Oleni-Pindos geological zone.

In ancient times, it was famous for its Erymanthian Boar. In Greek mythology, the king of Arcadia Lycaon had a boar which was named Erymanthus and that received its name to the mountain. In the mountains, Heracles (Hercules) killed the Erymanthian boar which became the whip of the area. Erymanthos thinks and as a ruler of Psofida, ancient economic city in Arcadia now in the Achaia prefecture.

Between the Byzantine and the Greek War of Independence, villages were founded and roads were created, several included Skiada and Oreino, mountain trails were added. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, most of its villages were rebuilt. Erymanthos was strucked by several earthquakes (see Earthquakes in Greece) including ones that were not epicentered in 1993. On February 5, 2008, the mountain was shooken by two earthquakes measuring at 5.5 on the Richter scale. Its epicentere was centred in Chalandritsa, the other in Farres outside the ranges.