Oxya, Karditsa

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Oxya
Οξυά
Statistics
Prefecture: Karditsa
Province: none
Municipality: Mouzaki
Municipal district: Oxeia (seat)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.3535 (39° 21' 19") N
21.5965 (21° 35' 46") E
Population: (2001)
-Municipal district
-Village
-Percent of the municipality
689
189
1.01%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
about 400 m
800 m
Karavas (2,184 m)
Postal code: GR-430 60
Area/distance code: 11-(00)30-26940
Car designation: KA

Oxya or Oxia (Greek: Οξυά), also with the a accented is a Greek mountainous village located west of Karditsa in the western part of the Karditsa Prefecture. Oxya rygona is also in the municipal municipality of Mouzaki. Oxya had a population of 189 in 2001. Oxya is located about 40 km west of Karditas and is in the foot of the Pindus mountains. Its residents are based in agriculture.

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[edit] Nearest places

[edit] Population

Year Municipal population Change Percent of the municipal
district		 Percent of the municipality
1981 847 - -
1991 219 -284 or -32.91% -
2001 189 -475 or -82.04% 1.02%

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, between 1981 and 1991, it saw an enormous loss in population and it lost enormously between 1991 and 2001.

[edit] Other

Oxya has a school, a lyceum (middle school), and its gymnasium (secondary school), churches, and a square (plateia).

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[edit] See also

Municipal districts of the municipality of Mouzaki
Amygdali | Anthochori (Anoixiatiko | Platanakos) | Drakotrypa (Arpakia | Keramargio | Milies | Spathes | Trygona | Tsarouchi) | Ellinokastro (Gravia | Petrota) | Kryopigi (Lakkes | Xirokampos) | Gelanthi | Lazarina | Magoulitsa | Mavrommati | Georgios Karaiskakis) | Mouzaki | Oxya (Dafni | Koura | Megali Vrysi | Mesorrachi | Palaiampela | Palaiochori | Platania | Soula | Sykia | Vagenia | Zamanatiko) | Pefkofyto (Charavgi | Nisia | Padi) | Porti (Martini | Meligos | Palaiokastro)
Greece | Thessaly | Karditsa | Mouzaki

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