Filiates

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Municipality of Filiates Δήμος Φιλιατών Dimos Filiaton
Statistics
Prefecture:	Corfu
Island:	Corfu
Seat:	Filiates
Number of municipal districts:	42 (see below)
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	39.763 (39° 35' 47") N 20.3087 (20° 18' 32") E
Area: -Rank	km²
Population: (2001) -Town -Municipal district -Municipality (Change from 1991) -Percent of the prefecture - Density<--  - Rank-->	2,246 2,344 (-245 or -10.91%) 8,288 95.82% 27.09% 17.98% 16.72/km²
Altitude:  -lowest:  -centre:	about 100 m about 220 m Mourgkana (1,808 m)
Postal code:	GR-461 00

Filiates (Greek: Φιλιάτες) is a town and a municipality in Thesprotia, Greece. It is located in the northernmost part of the prefecture, bordering western Ioannina Prefecture and southern Albania. It has a land area of 495.727 km² and a population of 8,288 (2001 census). Its village population was 2,246 and the municipal district population was 2,344. It is the 11th-largest municipality in area in Greece, and the largest in Thesprotia (right after Paramythia, covering almost one-third of the prefecture. Its municipal seat is the town of Filiátes (pop. 2,246), one of the biggest towns in the area. The largest other towns or villages in the municipality are Keramítsa (pop. 309), Palaiochóri (291), Vrysélla (277), Leptokaryá (276), Trikóryfon (245), Ampeló (222), Kerasochóri (211), and Kokkiniá (205). The municipality has a total of 42 municipal districts, the most of any municipality in Greece. (The next largest two, with 31 each, are Megalópoli in Arcadia, and Kalavryta in Achaea.)

Contents 1 Location 2 Settlement 3 Municipal districts 4 Population 5 Geography 6 Climate 7 Other 8 External links

[edit] Location

Filiates is located southwest of Konitsa, west-southest of Kozani and Thessaloniki, west of Ioannina, northwest of Athens, north of Preveza and east of Igoumenitsa.

Filiates is connected with the GR-6 (Larissa - Metsovo - Ioannina - Igoumenitsa) and is now the old road. It has a few interchanges with the Egnatia Odos (Alexandroupoli - Thessaloniki - Igoumenisa) and several had just opened. It is connected with the GR-19 that goes down to Paramythia and Preveza.

[edit] Settlement

• Elaia

[edit] Municipal districts

• Achladia
• Aetos
• Agios Nikolaos
• Agioi Pantes
  • Palaiochori, Agioi Pantes
• Ampelona
• Anavryto
• Charavgi
  • Agia Varvara
• Faneromeni
• Filiates
• Foiniki
• Gardiki
  • Melissa
  • Perama
• Giromeri
• Gola
  • Rodostiva
• Kallithea
• Kato Xechoro
  • Potamia
  • Sitaina or Sitean
  • Skolakatika
  • Vrysoula or Vryssoula
• Keramitsa
• Kerasochori
  • Mavroneri
• Kefalochori
  • Kossyvatika or Kossivatika
• Kokkinia
  • Tsatsoulaika or Tsatsouleika
• Kokkinolithari
  • Nerochori
• Kouremadi
• Kryoneri
• Kyparissi
  • Agios Arsenios
• Leptokarya
  • Agia Marina Leptokaryon
• Lia - located north by the Albanian border
• Lista
• Malouni
  • Achouria Malouniou
  • Velentzina Malouniou
• Milia, Thesprotia
• Palaiokklisi
  • Ano Palaiokklisi
  • Kato Palaiokklisi
• Palaiochori
  • Donatos
• Palampa or Palamba
• Pigadoulia
• Plaissi
  • Kotsika
• Platanos
• Raveni
• Rizo
  • Chlomos
• Sideri
• Trikoryfo
  • Fragma Kalama (Kalama Dam)
• Tsamanta
  • Kamitsani
• Xechoro
  • Dafni

[edit] Population

Year	Population	Change	Municipal district population	Percent of the municipal district	Percent of the municipality	Municipal population	Percent of the prefecture
1981	2,439	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1991	2,591	+152 or +6.23%	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001	2,246	-245 or -10.91%	2,344	95.82%	27.09% (village) 28.28% (municipal district)	8,288		17.98%	16.72/km²

[edit] Geography

Its geography consists of almost entirely mountainous with several valleys. The Mourgkanas mountains lie to the north with the Albanian border. Farmlands are in the valleys and forests and grasslands also dominates the areas and covers about 60 to 70%.

[edit] Climate

Its climate is one of the wettest in the prefecture, when the western coastline receives more sunshine, the area receives rain and snow during the winter months.

[edit] Other

Filiates has schools, a few lyceums (middle school) a gymnasium (secondary school), churches, banks, shops and a square (plateia). Its nearest university is east in Ioannina, the University of Ioannina.

[edit] External links

• Official website (English) (Greek)
• Parelioi on GTP Travel Pages
• Maps and aerial photos:
  • Street map information from: Mapquest, LiveLocal or Google or Yahoo! Maps
  • Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available

Northwest: Albania	North: Albania (country) and Delvinaki?
West: Sagiada	Filiates	East: Ioannina Prefecture
Southwest: Igoumenitsa	South: Parapotamos	Southeast: Paramythia

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Coordinates: 39°36′N, 20°19′E