Troezen
Sign in to saveTroezen (; ancient Greek: Τροιζήν, modern Greek: Τροιζήνα ) is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia-Methana, of which it is a municipal unit. It is part of the Islands regional unit. In the 2021 census it had a population of 4,668.
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Place details
- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Τροιζήνος
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Αττικής
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 673
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Troezen
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Τροιζήνα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Trizinos.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Attica
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Islands
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Troizinia-Methana
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 4668
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 734
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 190.697
- Greek Dimos.elevation
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Τροιζήν
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- +611
- Area
- +40.597
- Elevation
- +64
- Capital of
- Trizina Municipal Unit
- Official website
- web.archive.org/web/20061205023252/http://dimos-trizinas.gr
- Image
- Troizen blossom.jpg
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Troezen (; ancient Greek: Τροιζήν, modern Greek: Τροιζήνα ) is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia-Methana, of which it is a municipal unit. It is part of the Islands regional unit. In the 2021 census it had a population of 4,668.
Troezen is located southwest of Athens, across the Saronic Gulf, and a few miles south of Methana. The seat of the former municipality was in Galatas. Before 2011, Troizina was part of the Argolis and Korinthos prefecture from 1833 to 1925, Attica prefecture from 1925 to 1964, Piraeus Prefecture from 1964 to 1972 and then back in Attica prefecture (in antiquity it was part of Argolis). The municipality had a land area of 190.697 km2. Its largest towns and villages were Galatás, Kalloní, Troizína, Taktikoúpoli, Karatzás, Dryópi, Ágios Geórgios, and Agía Eléni. It included numerous smaller settlements as well.