Elassona

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Municipality of Elassona
Δήμος Ελασσόνας
Dimos Elassonas'
Statistics
Prefecture: Larissa
Province: Elassonas (capital)
Seat: Elassona
Number of subdivisions: 8 (see below)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.875 (39° 52' 32") N
22.18 (22° 10' 55") E
Population: (2001)
-Municipality
-Town
-Municipal district
Percent of the prefecture
14,563
7,233
7,762
5.21%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
 -highest:
Elassonitis
311 m
Mount Olympus eastern part
Postal code: GR-402 00
Car designation: PI

Elassona or Elasona (Greek: Ελασσώνα, Turkish: Alasonya), older form: Elassonas is a town and a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture in Greece. Its 2001 population was 11,970 for the town and 14,563 for the municipality. It is ranked fourth in population in the prefecture when it is up to towns and cities. It is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus, the mythic place of the twelve Olympian gods. Elassona is bypassed since the 1980s by the GR-3 (Larissa - Kozani - Florina).

Elassona is also a province in which it has six municipalities and three communes. The province has 52 settlements, village and towns.

Contents

[edit] Subdivisions

  • Aetorrachi
  • Agionerio
  • Mikro Eleftherochori

[edit] Municipal districts

  • Drymo
  • Evangelismos
  • Galanovryssi
  • Kefalovrysi
  • Palaiokasro
  • Stefanovouni
    • Lefki
  • Valanida
    • Kleisoura

[edit] Population

Year Town Population Change Municipal district
population		 Municipal population Change Percent of the
municipality		 Percent of the
prefecture
1981 7,146 - - - - - -
1991 7,225 +79 or +1.11% - 15,637 - - -
2001 7,233 +8 or +0.11% 7,762 14,563 -1,074 or 6.87% 49.67% 5.21%

[edit] Geography

Its geography includes farmlands in the valley areas, the mountains to the west and east and forests in the west and east as well as grasslands, ledges are to be founded in some areas and barren area in the higher elevations.

Elassona is flowed by a river called the Elassonitis or the Elassonitikos and the Titarisio, both empties into the Pineios River, Thessaly's longest river. The river divides the town into two parts, the older city which is built on the Olympiotissa hill and is also Varosi or Varossi (Βαρόσι), and in the new sity which is in the right side of the bank of the river. These two parts of the city is connected with three bridges and one historic bridge. Last, the other part is near the Kefalovrysi Lake.

[edit] History

Unlike the rest of Thessaly which was annexed, Elassona and the northern half of Thessaly did not join Greece in 1881 as its battle for Greek annexation was unvictorious, only in the Balkan Wars saw the area liberated from the Ottoman Turks on October 6, 1912 by the Greeks and finally annexed the municipality and the region as well as the northern part of the prefecture to Greece.

[edit] Transportation

Elassona is linked with the old GR-3 and is bypassed to the east. Elassona is located 70 km southwest of Katerini, 38 km NNW of Larissa (old: about 50 km), 22 km NW of Tyrnavos (old: 30 km), east of Deskati and Grevena and 78 km ESE of Kozani.

[edit] Municipal changes

Until March 15, 2006, Tsaritsani was part of the municipality of Elassonas and functioned as a municipal district. Under the law 3448/15-3-2006, Tsaritsani separated from the municipality and declared a commune.

[edit] Other

Elassonas has schools, lyceums (middle school) gymnasia (high school), banks, churches, a post office, a few supermarkets, a police station, a health centre and a pharmacy and a square (plateia).

[edit] External links

Municipal districts of the municipality of Elassona
Drymo (Larissa), Greece | Elassona (Aetorrachi | Agionerio | Mikro Eleftherochori) Evangelismos | Galanovryssi | Kefalovrysso | Palaiokastro | Stefanovouni (Lefki | Valanida (Kleisoura)
Greece | Thessaly | Larissa Prefecture | Elassona | Olympos
Municipalities and communities of the Larissa Prefecture
Agia • Ampelonas • Antichasia • Armenio • Elassona • Enippeas • Evrymenes • Farsala • Giannouli • Gonnoi • Kato Olympos • Kileler • Koilada • Krannonas • Lakereia • Larissa • Livadi • Makrychori • Melivoia • Narthaki • Nessonas • Nikaia • Olympos • Platykampos • Polydamantas • Potamia • Sarantaporo • Tyrnavos
Ampelakia • Karya • Verdikousa
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