Trikala
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Trikala municipality Δήμος Τρικκαίων (Τρίκαλα) |
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| Region : | Thessaly | ||
| Regional District : | Trikala | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 39 ° 34 ' N , 21 ° 47' E | ||
| Area : | 608.48 km² | ||
| Residents : | 81,355 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 133.7 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Post Code: | 42100 | ||
| Prefix: | (+30) 24310 | ||
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| Seat: | Trikala | ||
| LAU-1 code no .: | 2602 | ||
| Districts : | 8 municipal districts | ||
| Local self-government : |
2 city districts 33 local communities |
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| Website: | www.3kala.gr | ||
| Location in the Thessaly region | |||
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Trikala ( Greek Τρίκαλα ( n. Pl. ), Aromanian Trikolj , Turkish Tırhala ) is a city in Greece with (2011) 61,653 inhabitants in the core city and 81,355 in the municipality, which was last significantly enlarged in 2010 by incorporations. The city is located in the fertile Thessalian plain. The river Pinios passes the city from north-northwest to south-southeast in the west outside the city and then swings its flow direction southwest of the city to the east. The city of Trikala is traversed by the Litheos River, which divides the city in two. Due to the sometimes very high temperatures in summer , it also has the reputation of a heat boiler. The Meteora monasteries are located 30 km northwest of Trikala near Kalambaka .
history
Trikala lies in the same place as the Homeric Trikka and is dominated by a Byzantine fortress that was built on a wooded hill over the remains of an ancient acropolis . Homer mentions the city of Trikka as the origin of the Asklepios cult. In addition, Trikka was of little importance in ancient times . Remains of the Acropolis Trikkas from classical times have been preserved. Southeast of it was u. a. a thin settlement layer with very late Mycenaean pottery ( late Helladic III C late) from the first half of the 11th century BC Exposed.
Since 146 BC Trikala belonged to the Roman Empire , from 395 to the Byzantine Empire and from 1204 to 1259 to the Despotate of Epirus . In 1348 the city was incorporated into the Greater Serbian Empire by Preljub ; from 1359 to 1373 the Nemanjids Simeon Uroš Palaiologos and Jovan Uroš resided here as emperors of the Romans and Serbs . In 1394 the Turks drove out the last Christian ruler of Thessaly, Manuel Angelos Philanthropenos . The city now called Tırhala, located in the Ottoman European heartland Rumelia , only came to Greece in 1881 from - at that time Ottoman-Albanian - Vilayet Yanya (Greek Ioannina ).
The Trikala, which was elevated to a municipality in 1997, officially uses the name of the Homeric Trikka, Dimos Trikkeon (Δήμος Τρικκαίων "municipality of the Trikkäer").
traffic
Trikala is the road traffic junction in northwestern Hessen. Two national roads pass the municipality directly. The national road 6 passes Trikala from the north-west from Ioannina , Metsovo and Kalambaka coming to the east in the direction of Larisa and Volos . It is also the European route 92 and connects the motorways 2 (Ioannina – Thessaloniki – Alexandroupolis) and 1 (Athens – Lamia – Larisa – Thessaloniki). The four-lane section from Trikala to Kalambaka will be replaced by Autobahn 3 in the second decade of the 21st century . The section to Larisa, which has also been expanded to four lanes, may be classified as a motorway in the future. The national road 30 begins in Trikala and leaves the city in a south-westerly direction to the village of Pyli at the southern end of the Kerketio massif. From there the road leads winding through the Pindos Mountains, partly along the Acheloos Valley to Arta . This makes it the most important connection from Thessaly to Southern Epirus, despite its winding route and its only two-lane expansion status.
Trikala is on the Paleofarsalos - Kalambaka railway line . This route is currently used daily by five pairs of local trains and one pair of IC trains to Athens .
Trikala does not have an airport. The nearest international airport is Nea Anchialos / Volos or Thessaloniki or Ioannina. All airports are at least 100 km from Trikala.
Both the Litheos and the Pinios, which pass the city of Trikala to the south and west, are not navigable.
Museums
Municipal Folklore Museum, Municipal Pinacoteca, Icon Collection. The mausoleum of Osman Shah in from Mimar Sinan designed former Lead Mosque ( Koursoum Tzami ) is used as a storage place for artifacts from archaeological excavations.
Digital city
At the end of 2004, the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance announced that it would make Trikala the first Greek digital city. It is to be expanded step by step in terms of electronic services and e-government by mid-2006 . The initiative aims to turn Trikala into an e-government laboratory for other Greek cities on four levels: infrastructure (e.g. provision of hardware and software), applications (such as e-government services based on the life situation principle ), back office and End User. To do this, u. a. 30 kilometers of fiber optic cable will be laid; a broadband radio network is to integrate the public buildings in the outskirts.
Town twinning
Amberg , Upper Palatinate, (Germany)
Castrop-Rauxel , North Rhine-Westphalia, (Germany) since 2013
Tucson , Arizona (USA)
Brașov ( Kronstadt , Romania).
Sports
- Trikala hosted the Balkan Games in 1994 and 2001 .
- The basketball club and first division Trikala BC is based in Trikala.
sons and daughters of the town
- Evangelos Averoff (1910–1990), Greek politician
- Konstantinos Fortounis (* 1992), Greek football player
- Nikolaos Gazis (1903-1996), Greek politician
- Georgios Kondylis (1879–1936), Greek general and politician
- Sotirios Kyrgiakos (* 1979), Greek football player
- Christos Papanikolaou (* 1941), Greek pole vaulter and world record holder in 1970
- Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
- Vassilios Tsiartas (* 1972), Greek football player
- Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915–1984), Greek singer, composer and bouzouki virtuoso
- Dimitris Mitropanos (1948–2012), Greek singer
Web links
- Market in the late 1950th
- (English) ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- http://www.3kala.gr/ (Greek)
- (on the subject of the digital city) (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Edzard Visser : Homer's catalog of ships. Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1997, p. 692. ISBN 3-519-07442-7 .
- ↑ Homer, Ilias 2, 729ff .; 4, 200ff.
- ↑ Penelope A. Mountjoy : Regional Mycenaean Decorated Pottery. Rahden / Westfalen 1999, vol. 2. p. 822.