Pteleos
Sign in to savethumb|Agia Marina beach, Pteleos Pteleos () is a village and a former municipality in the southern part of Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality of Almyros, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 118.230 km2, and a population of 1,990 in 2021.
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Place details
- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Πτελεού
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Θεσσαλίας
- Country
- Ελλάς
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Pteleos
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Πτελεός
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Pteleou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Thessaly
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Magnesia
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Almyros
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 1990
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 1195
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 118
- Greek Dimos.licence
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thumb|Agia Marina beach, Pteleos Pteleos () is a village and a former municipality in the southern part of Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality of Almyros, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 118.230 km2, and a population of 1,990 in 2021.
==History== The area has been populated already since the prehistoric times, although not to be identified as the place Pteleum in ancient Elis that belonged to Nestor in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. Several tombs from the Mycenean period survive between Pteleos (Pteleum) and Agioi Theodoroi.