Prosotsani
Sign in to saveProsotsani (, until 1925: - Prosotsani, from 1925 until 1940: - Pyrsopolis) is a municipality and town within the municipality located in the western part of the Drama regional unit in Greece. The 2021 census reported a population of 7,499 inhabitants for the municipal unit, and 3,169 for the town. A local attraction is the cave at the source of the Angitis River, located at the village of Angitis in the community of Kokkinogeia.
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Place details
- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Προσοτσάνης
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ανατολικής Μακεδονίας και Θράκης
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 4,021
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Prosotsani
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Προσοτσάνη
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Prosotsanis.svg
- Greek Dimos.periph
- East Macedonia and Thrace
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Drama
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 10739
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 481.8
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 7499
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 419.0
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 3169
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΡΜ
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Prosotsani Drama Town Hall.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- Prosotsani town hall
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 3553
- Elevation
- 130
- Dialing code
- 2522
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- postal code
- 662 00
- native label
- Προσοτσάνη
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Prosotsani (, until 1925: - Prosotsani, from 1925 until 1940: - Pyrsopolis) is a municipality and town within the municipality located in the western part of the Drama regional unit in Greece. The 2021 census reported a population of 7,499 inhabitants for the municipal unit, and 3,169 for the town. A local attraction is the cave at the source of the Angitis River, located at the village of Angitis in the community of Kokkinogeia.
==History== Prosotsani is a historic town (and a former center of tobacco production) on the foot of Menekio mountain. It was a sub-district in the sanjak in the Selanik vilayet as "Pürsıçan" during Ottoman Era, before the Balkan Wars.
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