Gomfoi

Municipality of Gomfoi or Gomfi Δήμος Γόμφων Dimos Gomfon
Statistics
Prefecture:	Trikala
Province:	Trikala
Municipality:	Gomfoi (seat)
Municipal district:	Gomfoi (seat)
Number of municipal districts:	6
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	39.4715 (39° 27' 12") N 21.6926 (21° 41' 28") E
Population: (2001) -Municipality (Change) -Town -Percent of the municipality -Percent of the prefecture	5,154 (-21.26% from 1991) 1,096 21.26% 3.73%
Altitude:  -lowest:  -centre:	about 110 m 135 m about 800 to 1,000 m (west)
Postal code:	GR-421 00
Car designation:	TK

Gomfoi or Gomfi (Greek: Γόμφοι) is a municipality in the Trikala Prefecture, Greece. Population 5,154 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Lygaria. Gomfoi is located near Mouzaki. The Pindus mountains lies to the west. Gomfoi is located southwest of the prefectural capital of Trikala and is also connected with the main road with that city. Gomfoi is one of several municipalities in the prefecture and the country in which it does not have settlements. The Thessalian Plain dominates the eastern portion.

Nearest places

• Palaiomonastiri, west
• Pigi, northwest

Municipal districts

• Drosero
• Gomfoi (2001 pop: 1,096)
• Lygaria
• Mouria
• Palaiomonastiri
• Pigi

Population

Year	Settlement population	Change	Municipal population	Change	Percent of the municipality	Percent of the prefecture
1991	1,187	-120 or -9.94%	5,484	-	-
2001	1,096	-91 or -7.67%	5,154	-330 or -6.02	21.26%	3.73%

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world.

History

Gomfoi was founded during the ancient times, it was later renamed Philippopolis (Greek, Ancient: Φιλιππούπολις, Modern: Φιλιππούπολη) during the years of Philip II of Macedon. It was later renamed Gomfoi. Gomfoi was later run by the Romans, the Byzantines and last the Ottomans before joining the rest of Greece in 1881 after Thessaly was liberated. Gomfoi boomed its economy. Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

Other

Gomfi has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office and a square (plateia), its nearest hospital is in Trikala.

See also

• List of settlements in the Trikala prefecture

External links

• Gomfi (municipality) on GTP Travel Pages
• Gomfi (town) on GTP Travel Pages

Northwest: Pialeio	North: Pialeio	Northeast: Trikalattntf
West: Pyndaio	Gomfoi	East: Megal Kalyvi
	South: Mouzaki