Nea Anchialos

Coordinates: 39°16′N 22°49′E / 39.267°N 22.817°E / 39.267; 22.817
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Nea Anchialos
Νέα Αγχίαλος
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
374 00
Area code(s)24280
Vehicle registrationΒΟ

Nea Anchialos (

municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Volos, of which it is a municipal unit.[2] It is situated southwest of Volos and north of Almyros, on the coast of the Pagasetic Gulf. It is located on the national highway Athens-Lamia-Volos. The area of the municipal unit is 80.461 km2 (31.066 sq mi)[3]
and its population 5,881 people (2021).

View of Anchialos from the Pagasetic Gulf

History

Antiquity

The modern town is built on the ruins of the ancient city of

Pyrasos (Πύρασος),[4] and is associated with the nearby city of Thessalian or Phthiotic Thebes, near the modern village of Mikrothivai.[5][6]

stadia
from Phthiotic Thebes.

Pyrasos is scarcely known from historical sources, except that it was an active harbour and featured a famous temple of Demeter and Kore, after which the harbour was later known as Demetrion.[4] The only excavation which took place on the hill of Magoula, the old acropolis, southeast of Nea Anchialos, proves that the site was peopled since the earliest Neolithic period (6th millennium BC) by fishermen and agriculturalists. Archaeologically, the remains of Pyrasos are scant, and the city is barely known in historical times. An arm from an oversized statue, which came to light in 1965, was attributed to Demeter. Possibly the most significant find is a small fragment of an ancient epigraph, discovered in the debris of the big Basilica D with the name Pyrasos, confirming the location of the city.

In the late 4th century BC, Pyrasos was joined (

Halmyros.[5]

Nea Anchialos

Nea Anchialos was founded in 1906 by Greeks who fled the

Greek-Bulgarian struggle in Macedonia
.

Notes

  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
  3. ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
  4. ^ a b M.H. McAllister (1976). "PYRASOS (Nea Anchialos) Thessaly, Greece". The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
    .
  6. ^ a b c T.S. MacKay (1976). "PHTHIOTIC THEBES Achaia Phthiotis, Greece". The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

References

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