Eleftheres Explained

Eleftheres
Name Local:Ελευθερές
Type:municipal unit
Periph:East Macedonia and Thrace
Periphunit:Kavala
Pop Municunit:8647
Pop Community:1279
Population As Of:2021
Area Municunit:150.6
Coordinates:40.8333°N 42°W
Postal Code:64007
Area Code:25940
Licence:ΚΒ
Caption Skyline:Beach in the Eleftheres Municipality

Eleftheres (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ελευθερές|Eleftherés) is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] The municipal unit has an area of 150.555 km2.[2] The seat of the municipality was Nea Peramos. The other villages in this municipal unit are Agios Andreas, Eleftheres, Elaiochori, Folia, Myrtofyto and Nea Iraklitsa.

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 300 Greek Christians and 300 Greek Muslims lived in the village in 1900.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text. el. Government Gazette.
  2. Web site: Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) . National Statistical Service of Greece . el . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf . 2015-09-21 .
  3. [Vasil Kanchov|Kanchov, Vasil]