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
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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".