Louros
Sign in to saveLouros () is a town and a former municipality in the Preveza regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It was the center of a kaza of the Preveza Sanjak under the Ottoman Empire. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Preveza, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was the small town of Louros (pop. 1,769 in 2021). The area of the municipal unit is 176.075 km2, with a population of 4,581 people (2011). The town and municipal unit are named after the river Louros which flows just south of the town. Until recently, the Louros valley was swampy, but
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Place details
- Locality
- Λούρος
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ηπείρου
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 2,033
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Louros
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Λούρος
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Lourou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Epirus
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Preveza
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Preveza
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 3987
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 1769
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 176.1
- Greek Dimos.licence
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- +1938
- Elevation
- +30
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- P706
- Epirus
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Louros () is a town and a former municipality in the Preveza regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It was the center of a kaza of the Preveza Sanjak under the Ottoman Empire. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Preveza, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was the small town of Louros (pop. 1,769 in 2021). The area of the municipal unit is 176.075 km2, with a population of 4,581 people (2011). The town and municipal unit are named after the river Louros which flows just south of the town. Until recently, the Louros valley was swampy, but in modern times the marshes were drained and are now used for the production of olives, oranges, lemons and tomatoes. Besides the town of Louros itself, the largest communities in the municipality are Oropós (pop. 1,127), Stefáni (379), Vrysoúla (149), Áno Ráchi (96), and Kotsanópoulo (200).
==Subdivisions== The municipal unit Louros is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): Ano Rachi Kotsanopoulo (Ano Kotsanopoulo, Kato Kotsanopoulo) Louros Neo Sfinoto Oropos (Neos Oropos) Revmatia (Revmatia, Kato Revmatia) Skiadas (Skiadas, Aloni, Kontates) Stefani Trikastro Vrysoula