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Makrinitsa
Sign in to saveMakrinitsa (), nicknamed "balcony of Mt. Pelion," is a village and a former community in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Volos, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 59.903 km2.
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Place details
- Locality
- Δήμος Βόλου
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Θεσσαλίας
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 694
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Makrinitsa
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Μακρινίτσα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Μακρυνίτσα.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- Makrinitsa
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Makrinitsis.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Thessaly
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Magnesia
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Volos
- Greek Dimos.population
- 353
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area
- 59.9
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 600
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 370 11
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 24280
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΒΟ
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Encyclopedic overview
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Makrinitsa (), nicknamed "balcony of Mt. Pelion," is a village and a former community in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Volos, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 59.903 km2.
==Name== The name is first attested in the early 13th century through the Makrinitissa Monastery. "Makrinitissa" itself is a more scholarly form of "Makrinitsa", which must have been the colloquial name even at the time. It is of Slavic origin, originally Mokrinitsa, a diminutive form of Mokrina, "wet place", referring to the water-rich environs of the village. The name was Hellenized with the change of the first vowel to "a" from the Greek word makrys, "long".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Makrinitsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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