Krini, Trikala

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Krini
Κρήνη
Statistics
Prefecture: Trikala
Province: Trikala
Municipality: Oichalia
Municipal district: Krini
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:

39.614 (39° 36' 48") N
21.0385 (21° 0' 27") E
Population: (2001)
-Village
-Percent of the municipality

895
15.48%


Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:

about 110 m
130 m
about 800 m
Postal code: GR-421 00
Car designation (as of 2006): TK

Krini (Greek: Κρήνη), also with the i accented is a Greek town in the municipality of Oichalia in the southeastern Trikala Prefecture. Krini had a population of 895 in 2001 for the settlement. The origin of the name came from its many springs in which it had a long time ago. Its residents are based in agriculture and other businesses including machinery.

Still, it has a historic maple which in the shade that quenched until the Turkish conquest.

Contents

[edit] Population

Year Settlement population Change Percent of the municipality
1991 1,042 -10 or -0.95% -
2001 895 +105 or +36.16% 15.48%

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 declined slowly between the 1981 and 1991 but it declined between 1991 and 2001.

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.

[edit] Other

Krini has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office and a square (plateia), its nearest and banks are in the outskirts of Trikala.

[edit] External links

[edit] See also

Municipal districts of the municipality of Oichalia or Ichalia
Georganades | Klokotos | Krini | Oichalia or Ichalia | Petroto
Greece | Thessaly | Karditsa | Trikala | Gomfoi