Agios Nikolaos, Phocis

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Agios Nikolaos
Άγιος Νικόλαος
Statistics
Prefecture: Phocis
Province: Dorida
Municipality: Tolofona
Municipal district: Kallithea
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
38.5155 (38° 30' 54") N
21.159 (21° 9' 33") E
Population: (2001)
-Village (Change from 1991)
-Municipal district
-Percent of the municipal district
-Percent of the municipality
101 (+154 or +26.92%)
26.53%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
Gulf of Corinth (south)
5 m
about 400 m (north)
Postal code: GR-330 58
Car designation (as of 2006): AM

Agios Nikolaos or Ayios Nikolaos (Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος) also with an a and an i accented is a Greek village in the municipal district of Kallithea and the municipality of Tolofona, it is in the southern part of the Phocis prefecture. It also has a nearby small bushy islet with the same name. Agios Nikolaos is connected with the new GR-48 linking Antirrio as well as Patras and Itea along with Amfissa and the GR-27 and is also the E65. Agios Nikolaos is located south of Lidoriki, about 5 km southwest of Amfissa and about 35 km southwest Itea and east of Nafpaktos and Antirrio. Agios Nikolaos had a 2001 population of was 101 for the settlement.

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[edit] Nearest places

[edit] Population

Year Settlement population Change Percent of the municipal district Percent of the
municipality
1991 114 - - - -
2001 101 -2 or -1.75% 28.13% 3.29%

[edit] Geography

The geography around Agios Nikolaos is situated by a bay that has a beach and a small harbor. Its mountains surround the area and are mainly made up of bushes and grasslands, forests are sporadically founded, much of it are bushy, the remainder are forested. During clear days, it offers a view of the Peloponnese peninsula that sees the mountains within Diakopto and the Mavria Mountains southward. Residential houses and buildings are by the harbor.

[edit] Information

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of the buildings were rebuilt. Houses were stone-built until the 1950s and did not surpass modern-style homes until the 1980s. It was linked with pavement in the 1980s. Most of the homes are abandoned today.

[edit] Other

Agios Nikolaos has a school, a church, and a square (plateia). Its lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are in Erateini.

[edit] External links

[edit] See also

The municipality of Tolofona
Municipal districts: Elaia | Erateini | Glyfada (Dafnochori) | Kallithea (Agia Eirini | Agios Nikolaos | Agios Spyridonas | Flampourakia | Klovinos) | Makrini | Milia | Panormos (Ormos Lemonias) | Trizonia (Chania | Spilia) | Tolofona (Paralia Tolofona)
Islets:Agios Ioannis | Agios Nikolaos | Prasoudi or Prassoudi | Trizonia
Greece | Central Greece | Phokida | Desfina