Mesochora

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Mesochora or Mesohora 'Μεσοχώρα'
Prefecture:	Trikala
Province:	Kalambaka
Municipality:	Pyndaios
Municipal district:	Mesochora
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	39.4699 (39° 28' 12") N 21.3215 (21° 19' 21") E
Population: (2001) -Village -Municipal district -Percent of the municipal district -Percent of the municipality	415 470 88.3%19.43%
Altitude: -lowest: -centre:	841 m about 1,500 m
Postal code:	GR-420 37
Car designation (as of 2006):	`TK`

Mesochora or Mesohora (Greek: Μεσοχώρα meaning the inner town), also with the second a accented is a Greek town in the municipality of Pyndaios in the southwestern Trikala Prefecture located northwest of the city of Trikala, east of Ioannina, south of Grevena and west of Kalambaka. Mesochora had a population of 465 in 2001 for the settlement. Mesochora is built 800 m above sea level. Its nearby mountaintops in which they are part of the Pindus ranges includes Avgo, Alamanos and Tsigkori. It is located by the GR-30 (Trikala - Arta). It is inhabited in the winter and the summer months. The former name was known as Vitsitsa (Βιτσίτσα). Its residents are based in agriculture. During the Ottoman rule, the mountainous village were disturbed. In 1912, it declared itself a mountainous municipality and was renamed Mesochora in 1928. It became a part of the municipality of Pindaio since 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan. It resently constructed a dam.

1 Subdivisions
2 Population
3 History
4 Other
5 External links
6 See also

[edit] Subdivisions

Exogi
Spitia

[edit] Population

Year	Settlement population	Change	Municipal district population	Percent of the municipal district	Percent of the municipality
1981	264	-	-	-
1991	459	+194 or +73.48%	-	-	-
2001	415	-44 or -9.59%	470	88.3%	19.43% (village) 22%

[edit] History

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 between the 1981 and 1991 but dropped 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

Mesochora 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.