Valerianos Βαλεριάνος |
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Valerianos
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Country: | Greece |
Region: | Ionian Islands |
Regional unit: | Kefalonia |
Municipality: | Kefalonia |
Municipal unit: | Eleios-Pronnoi |
Population statistics (as of 2001) | |
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- Population: | 262 |
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Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
Valerianos (Greek: Βαλεριάνος) is a settlement in the island of Kefalonia, Greece. In 2001 its population was 150 for the village, and 262 for the municipal district.
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Year | Population village | Population municipal district |
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1981 | 254 | - |
1991 | 142 | - |
2001 | 150 | 262 |
Valerianos is located south of Sami, about 30 km west of Poros and about 24 km east of Argostoli. Valerianos is connected with the Argostoli-Poros Road which is nearly 3 km west. It is connected with a road linking Argostoli and Skala. The road sees the villages and accesses further west.
Its geography are mountainous and are made up of farmlands. It sits on a mountain slope, the area are mainly deforested. Farmlands are within the village.
Valerianos was ruled by the Venetians until the Napoleonic Wars when it was French mostly throughout, it was briefly Russian and Ottoman with autonomous administration, and again French, after the invasion until 1864, it became a part of Britain with its possession, the United States of the Ionian Islands until it finally ceded to Greece. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, some of its buildings were rebuilt. Thiramonas was dramatically devastated by the 1953 Ionian Earthquake and took a few years to rebuild with modern architecture and a disappearance of stone built houses. Arginia became connected with asphalt in the 1970s. More pavement was accessed in the 1990s. Electricity, radio and automobiles were introduced in the mid-20th century, television in the late-20th century and computer and internet at the turn of the millennium. Its population lost the most between 1981 and 1991 but it recovered in 2001.
Its main economy is agriculture, its main production includes olives, cattle, fruits, vegetables and other crops.
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