East Olympos Explained

East Olympos
Name Local:	Ανατολικός Όλυμπος
Type:	municipal unit
Periph:	Central Macedonia
Periphunit:	Pieria
Population:	7999
Population As Of:	2021
Area:	152.939
Coordinates:	40.0667°N 56°W
Licence:	KN

East Olympos, or Anatolikos Olympos (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ανατολικός Όλυμπος, ,), is a former municipality in Pieria regional unit, Greece. In Greece's 2011 local government reform East Olympos became a municipal unit of the municipality Dion-Olympos.^[1] The municipal unit has an area of 152.939km2^[2] and a population of 7,999 (2021). The seat of the former East Olympos municipality was in Leptokarya.

The current East Olympos municipal unit consists of the following communities (constituent villages in parentheses):

• Leptokarya
• Panteleimonas (Palaios Panteleimonas, Neos Panteleimonas, Paralia Panteleimonos)
• Platamon
• Poroi (Neoi Poroi, Agios Dimitrios, Poroi)
• Skotina (Skotina, Ano Skotina, Paralia Skotinis)

Notes and References

1. Web site: ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities. el. Government Gazette.
2. Web site: Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation). National Statistical Service of Greece. el. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf. 2015-09-21.