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 * Prefecture: || Arcadia
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 * Province: || Mantineia
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 * Municipality: || Falanthos
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 * Municipal district: || Chrysovitsi (seat)
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 * Location: Latitude: Longitude:|| 37.531 (37° 32' 51") N 22.2088 (22° 12' 34") E
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 * Population: (2001) -Percent of the municipality|| 196 (+13 or +7.1%) 14.96%
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 * Altitude: -lowest: -centre:|| about 900 m 1,100 m 1,271 m
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 * Postal code: || GR-221 00
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 * 1981 || 187 || - || -
 * 1991 || 183 || -4 or -21.39% || -
 * 2001 || 196 || +13 or +7.1% || 14.96%<!--
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Location and transportation
Chrysovitsi is also located NNE of Megalopoli, and SE of Lagkadia.

The village has about 7 km of paved road, 6 to 8 km of gravel road and has about 4 km of hydro and phone lines.

Geography
Much of the area are mountainous and are also forested with pine, cypresses and cedars, farmlands are around the village and barren land are at the highest elevations.

History
The settlement dates back to the 15th century, around 1700, it was mentioned as Chrissovizzi under the Venetian census and later Xovitzi (Ξοβίτζι). The village had its action center during the Greek Revolution of 1821. It is located near Libovissi, Thedoros Kolokotronis' village. In 1935, the village began to ran a lumbermill until 1972. It is now used as a museum by the Forest Council.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt and emigration occurred at a higher rate until the 1970s, the village recovered a small part of the population betweeen 1991 and 2001. Chryssovitsi became connected with asphalt in the 1960s. Electricity, radio and automobiles were introduced in the mid-20th century, television in the late-20th century and computer and internet at the turn of the millennium. In 1997, the ex-community (now a village and a municipal district) joined to become the newly formed municipality of Falanthos. The village was also featured on of Travelling in Greece. The village suffered a forest fire in July 2008, firefighters quickly put out the fire.

Other
There is an elementary school, a church and a big square. The nearest high school is in Alonistaina and the nearest hospital is in Tripoli.

Information
Its economy is based mainly on agricultural products.

The station
The station is located at km 101.155 on the partly abandoned Saint-Just-en-Chaussée - Douai line and at the km 115.358 of the also abandoned Ormoy-Villers - Boves line. The station serves trains with:


 * TER Picardie trains on the Amiens-Compiègne
 * TER Picardie freight trains: Montdidier with Saint-Just-en-Chaussée and Roisel

The tracks with Amiens passed othe long track west along the old line to Cambrai and the measured St-Just-en-Chaussée and Roisel line.

These three stations on the line (with Moreuil and Estrées-Saint-Denis) has its trains that crosseing an old line which was used until the 1980s.

History
Montdidier was located on the junction of the line linking with Amiens and another with Cambrai.

Coal trains used the station while heading for Creil and other large stations in the north of the Paris region via Estrées-St-Denis and Longueil-Ste-Marie and junctioned with the Amiens-Estrées line.

The second line served Roye and Montdidier (Cambrai - Paris-Nord line) and between Estrées-St-Denis and Longueil-Ste-Marie. Between Montdidier et Estrées, only one track remained and assured the junction of TER trains between Amiens and Creil, this line lasted the only way that always connected Estrées and Compiègne.

The third line contained only one track and served with St-Just-en-Chaussée with connects with the Lille-Longueau-Creil-Paris and Boulogne-Amiens-Longueau-Creil-Paris lines, one of the major junctions of the Compagie du Nord, wlong with the SNCF until the TGV opened.

TER Picardie freight trains continues to rely on the line mostly on the fixed schedule and disallows the connection of the two active lines (Montdidier-St Just et Amiens-Compiègne).

Later, the station gave a linkage between other lines including the Chemins de fer départementaux de la Somme, carries by the SE with Albert via and Noyon via Roye-sur-Matz. (part of the Oise network)