Melivoia

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|name = Melivoia

|name_local = Μελίβοια

|type = municipal unit

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|map_caption = Location within the regional unit

|periph = Thessaly

|periphunit = Larissa

|municipality = Agia

|pop_municunit = 2391

|pop_community = 1245

|population_as_of = 2021

|area_municunit = 197.633

|area_community = 82.858

|elevation = 329

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|postal_code = 400 03

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|licence = ΡΙ

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Melivoia (Greek: Μελίβοια) is a town and a former municipality in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Agia, of which it is a municipal unit.{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}} The municipal unit has an area of 197.633 km2.{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }} The seat of the municipality was in Kato Sotiritsa. Melivoia is located east of Larissa, the capital of the regional unit and Thessaly, and a few kilometers north of Agia. The municipal unit stretches along the Aegean Sea coast, at the foot of Mount Ossa. It was named after the ancient city Meliboea. The municipal unit borders on Magnesia to the southeast.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Melivoia is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

  • Melivoia (Melivoia, Velika, Kokkino Nero, Koutsoupia, Paliouria)
  • Skiti (Skiti, Agiokampos, Kato Polydendri)
  • Sklithro (Isiomata, Rakopotamos)
  • Sotiritsa (Sotiritsa, Kato Sotiritsa)

Population

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! Year !! Settlement population !! Community population !! Municipal unit population

19811,926--
19911,629-3,278
20011,3441,8983,472
20118051,1732,195
20218471,2452,391

See also

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