Grizano

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Grizano
Γριζάνο
Image

The town of Grizano and its vicinity including its farmlands and a mountain outside Grizano
Statistics
Prefecture: Trikala
Province: Trikala
Municipality: Farkadona
Municipal district: Grizano (seat)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.6273 (39° 37' 41") N
22.053 (22° 3") E
Population: (2001)
-Town (Change)
-Percent of the municipality
1,548 (+473.78% from 1991)
8.12%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
about 130 m (south)
140 m
about 800 to 1,000 m (north)
Postal code: GR-420 30
Car designation (as of 2006): TK

Grizano (Greek, Modern: Γριζάνο), older form: -on, part of the Farkadona municipality, is a town in the Trikala Prefecture, Greece. Its 2001 population was 1,548 for the village and is ranked the second largest community (not as the fomer communities) in the municipality that includes villages and towns. Grizano is located southwest of Tyrnavos, west of Larissa, north-northeast of Karditsa and east of the city of Trikala.

Contents

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Percent of the municipality
1981 1,453 - -
1991 1,601 +148 or +10.19% -
2001 1,548 -53 or -3.31% 21.82%

[edit] Geography

Its geography are made up of residential area in the central part, the mountains with grasslands to the north and east along with forest and some to the south and farmlands to the west and east. The village is divided between the Thessalian Plain and the mountains to the north.

[edit] History

Grizano was not Greek until the liberation of much Thessaly as well as the modern southeastern Arta Prefecture in 1881.

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 grew has grew since 1981 and rapidly between 1991 and 2001.

Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1970s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

[edit] Other

Grizano has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office and a square (plateia).

[edit] External links

[edit] See also

Municipal districts of the municipality of Farkadona
Achladochori | Diasello | Farkadona | Grizano | Keramidi | Panagitsa | Pineias | Zarkos
Greece | Thessaly | Karditsa | Trikala | Palaiokastro
 This Thessaly location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.