Velestino

Velestino Βελεστίνο (Δημοτική Κοινότητα Βελεστίνου)
Basic data
Country	Greece
region	Thessaly
Regional district	Magnesia
local community	Rigas Fereos
Parish	Feres
status	Borough
Geographic coordinates	39 ° 23 '  N , 22 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 23 '  N , 22 ° 45'  E
Height above d. M.	120  m
surface	44.387 km²
Residents	3403 (2011)
Local division	2

Velestino ( Greek Βελεστίνο ( n. Sg. )) Is a small town in the Greek region of Thessaly . It is the seat of the municipality of Rigas Fereos and is located in the hills that limit the south-eastern Thessalian plain at an altitude of 120 m above sea level . Velestino is located 17 km west of Volos and 40 km southeast of Larisa . It has a train station for the regional train from Larisa to Volos and previously served as a connection for Volos to EO 1 . Today the route of the A1 (Athens - Larisa - Thessaloniki) runs east of the city. The Greek writer and revolutionary Rigas Feraios was born in Velestino in 1757. Traditionally settled Vlachs in Velestino.

history

Under Ottoman rule, Velestin was the seat of a Kaza in the Sanjak Tirhala . In 1881 Velestin and the whole of Thessaly were ceded to Greece by the Treaty of Berlin (1878) . The Battle of Velestino during the Turkish-Greek War in 1897 was fought in the area of ​​the place.

Personalities

• Rigas Velestinlis (1757–1798), writer and revolutionary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΣΥΕ) according to the 2001 census , p. 79. (PDF, 793 kB)
2. ↑ 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)
3. ^ GTP - Velestino
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Dimitris Keridis: Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810859982 , p. 67.
6. ↑ George Moran. "Touring the Vlach Villages of Greece" - Travelogues for Vlach in Greece