Proastio, Karditsa

Proastio (Greek, Modern: Προάστιο, Katharevousa: -ον -on) is a Greek village located south of Karditsa in the western part of the Karditsa Prefecture. Proastio was the municipal seat of Sellana. It had a population of 1,833 in 2001. Its residents are based in agriculture and other businesses. The village was known as Paraprastena (Παραπράστενα) during the Ottoman rule and the first fifty years with Greece and after the Thessalian War.

Population

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. 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.

External links

• Proasteio on GTP Travel Pages

See also

• List of settlements in the Karditsa prefecture

References