Agios Georgios Nileias

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Agios Georgios Nileias (Greek: Άγιος Γεώργιος Νηλείας) is a Greek village located 20 km east of Volos in the Magnesia prefecture. Agios Georgios Nileias is built amphitheatrically at the elevation of 700 m on the slopes of Pelion. Koropi Agios Georgios Nileias is in the municipality of a Milies. Its population in 2001 was 785 for the municipal district. Agios Georgios Nileias is located between Agios Vlassios and Pinakates

[edit] Etymology

Notice that the Greek spelling has a letter eta and it does not use the letter iota which is a suburb southeast of Athens in Attica indicating it does not owe its origin of the name with a town in Athens which comes from Kropia, it comes from an ancient site.

[edit] Subdivisions

• Agia Triada (elevation: 500 m, 2001 pop: 27)
• Ano Gatzea (elevation: 150 m, pop: 289)
• Dyo Remata (elevation: 500 m, pop: 27)
• Kato Gatzea (seaside settlement, pop: 376)

[edit] Nearest places

• Agios Vlassios
• Pinakates

[edit] Population

[edit] Geography

The mountains dominate the area which is mainly forested and some grasslands and bushes, farmlands are within the village and it produces olives and other crops.

[edit] History

The first inhabitants of the village were foresters settled around the 15th century. The Aigiorgeites lived in the houses in the summer and in the winter lived in the village of the lower area (Agia Triada, Ano Gatzea and Kato Gatzea).

During the Greek War of Independence of 1821, the residents battled and in 1822, their battle was crushed and kept the village and the area in Turkish hands for the next sixty years and the village was burnt. The village and its settlements was finally freed from the Ottoman as the Greeks liberated and later joined the rest of Greece in 1881. The village became a part of the old municipality of Nileias which was dissolved in 1914 and downgraded to the communities of Ano and Kato Lechonia, Agios Vlassios (thne Karabasi), Agios Georgios, Drakeia, Agios Lavrentios and Agria. Together with the broken up communes, it was an autonomous commune until 1998. Nileia was an ancient city located close to modern Volos.

The village enjoyed its excellent lifestyle from the late-19th century up until World War II, the village had lots of water and rich in production which includes olives and apple. Many fortunes of its village residents left for Egypt and elsewhere.

After the Second World War and the Greek Civil War. The village declined. Many residents stopped the emigration to the lower parts of the settlements and emigration followed. Today, Agios Georgios Nileios has fewer residents, many homes.

[edit] About the village

Agios Georgios Nileias features a municipal museum named after Nikolas Pavlopoulos. The museum is open on weekdays with the historian Kostas Liapis who wrote the periodical I vigla

[edit] Persons

• Yiannis Poulakas (1863-1942) painter
• Nikolaos Pavlopoulos (1909-1990) sculptor and writer

[edit] Other

Agios Georgios Nileias has a school, church and a few squares (plateia), its nearest lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (high school) are in Milies.

[edit] References

• Kostas Liapis, O megalos Ai-Giorgis tou Piliou, published by the old Commune of Agios Georgios Nileias, Volos 1994, 515 pages ISBN 960-7175-68-9

[edit] See also

• List of settlements in the Magnesia prefecture

[edit] External links

• Agios Georgios Nileias on GTP Travel Pages
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• Coordinates: 39°20′31″N, 22°4′40″E