Agios Nikolaos, Phocis

Agios Nikolaos
Άγιος Νικόλαος
Location
Agios Nikolaos
Coordinates
Government
Country: Greece
Region: Central Greece
Regional unit: Phocis
Municipality: Dorida
Municipal unit: Tolofon
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Community
 - Population: 101
Other
Time zone: EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Auto: ΑΜ

Agios Nikolaos (Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος) is a village in the community of Kallithea and the municipal unit of Tolofon. It is in the southern part of Phocis, Greece. It has a nearby small bushy islet with the same name. Agios Nikolaos is connected with the new GR-48 linking Antirrio as well as Patras and Itea along with Amfissa and the GR-27 and is also the E65. Agios Nikolaos is located south of Lidoriki, about 5 km southwest of Amfissa and about 35 km southwest Itea and east of Nafpaktos and Antirrio. Agios Nikolaos had a 2001 population of was 101 for the settlement.

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Population

Year Population
1991 114
2001 101

Geography

The geography around Agios Nikolaos is situated by a bay that has a beach and a small harbor. Its mountains surround the area and are mainly made up of bushes and grasslands, forests are sporadically founded, much of it are bushy, the remainder are forested. During clear days, it offers a view of the Peloponnese peninsula that sees the mountains within Diakopto and the Mavria Mountains southward. Residential houses and buildings are by the harbor.

Information

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of the buildings were rebuilt. Houses were stone-built until the 1950s and did not surpass modern-style homes until the 1980s. It was linked with pavement in the 1980s. Most of the homes are abandoned today.

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