Krini, Trikala
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Krini Κρήνη |
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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.
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[edit] Population
Year | Settlement population | Change | Percent of the municipality |
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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
- Krini on GTP Travel Pages
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- Street map information from: Mapquest, LiveLocal or Google orYahoo! Maps
- Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available
- Coordinates: Coordinates:
[edit] See also
Municipal districts of the municipality of Oichalia or Ichalia |
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Georganades | Klokotos | Krini | Oichalia or Ichalia | Petroto |
Greece | Thessaly | Karditsa | Trikala | Gomfoi |