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Volimes
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Volimes () is a community in the mountainous northwestern part of the Ionian island of Zakynthos. It was the seat of the municipality of Elatia. The community includes the villages Agios Nikolaos, Askos, Varvara, Elies, Korithi and the uninhabited islet Agios Andreas.
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Place details
- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Ελατίων
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ιονίων Νήσων
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 406
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Volimes
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Βολίμες
- Greek Dimos.type
- community
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Ionian Islands
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Zakynthos
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Zakynthos
- Greek Dimos.municunit
- Elatia
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 534
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
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Volimes () is a community in the mountainous northwestern part of the Ionian island of Zakynthos. It was the seat of the municipality of Elatia. The community includes the villages Agios Nikolaos, Askos, Varvara, Elies, Korithi and the uninhabited islet Agios Andreas.
Volimes is located 1 km west of Ano Volimes, 3 km north of Anafonitria and 23 km northwest of Zakynthos (city). It is close to the Ionian Sea coast, and 7 km southwest of the island's northernmost point Cape Skinari. The village suffered great damage from the 1953 Ionian earthquake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volimes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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