Agia, Larissa

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Municipality of Agia
Δήμος Αγιάς
Dimos Agias
Statistics
Prefecture: Trikala
Province: Agia (capital)
Municipality: Agia (seat)
Municipal district: Agia (seat)
Number of municipal districts: 6
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.711 (39° 42' 43") N
22.751 (22° 45' 7") E
Population: (2001)
-Municipality (Change)
-Village
-Percent of the municipality
-Percent of the prefecture
6,458 (-12.86% from 1991)
3,027 (-24.57% from 1991)
46.88%
1.08
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
about 110 m
135 m
about 800 to 1,000 m (north)
Postal code: GR-400 03
Car designation (as of 2006): PI

Agia (Greek: Αγιά) (also written Ayia) is a village and a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture, Greece. Population 6,458 (2001). Agia is located east of the capital of the prefecture and Thessaly, Larissa and south of Melivoia. The Mavrovouni mountains dominate the south and the Aegean Sea lies to the east. Agia is also the capital of the homonymous province. Its nearest beach is to the northeast and southeast near Polydendro.

Contents

[edit] Municipal districts

  • Agia
  • Aetolofos
  • Anavra
    • Prinia
  • Elafos
  • Gerakari
  • Megalovryso
  • Metaxochori
  • Neromyloi
  • Potamia

[edit] Bounding municipalities

[edit] Population

Year Settlement population Change Municipal population Change Percent of the municipality Percent of the prefecture
1981 3,454 - - - -
1991 4,014 +650 or +18.81% 7,411 - -
2001 3,027 -987 or -24.57% 6,458 -953 or -12.86% 46.88% 1.08%

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world, the population boomed between 1981 and 1991 but declined between 1991 and 2001.

[edit] Industry

Its main industry are agriculture with a couple of businesses and services.

[edit] History

Agia fully became a part of Greece after liberating much of Thessaly in 1881. Its main income has been poor. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many buildings were rebuilt, several remain and repaired. Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s. The worst event that arrived to Agia was the forest fire (see also Summer 2007 Wildfires in Greece), the fire began not far from Agia on June 27, 2007 and spread for kilometres reaching the town destroying several trees and houses leaving tens homeless, several others were mainly from larger towns and cities of Greece. It consumed approximately 100 km² on Mavrovouni, one view included the ashes seen as far as the mountain slope and the other unburnt. It saw views of burnt parts.

[edit] Other

Agia has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office and a square (plateia), its nearest hospital is in Larissa.

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[edit] See also

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Municipal districts of the municipality of Agia
Aetolofos · Agia · Anavra (Prinia) · Elafos · Gerakari · Megalovryso · Metaxochori · Neromyloi · Potamia
Greece · Thessaly · Karditsa · Trikala · Agia
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