- Evrymenes, Larissa
Evrymenes or Evrimenes (Greek: Ευρυμενές) is a municipality in the northeastern portion of the
Larissa Prefecture ,Greece . Population 2,428 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Stomio. It is the location of the ancient city and was known asEurymenae (Erymnae).Geography
Its geography is the treacherous mountains that are forested and grassy to the southwest that no road passes except for the superhighway, farmlands of the
Tempe or Tembi Valley is to the north in where the Pineios River flows and it is its principal river. More mountains lies to the northwest and theAegean Sea is directly to the east. The GR-1 and theE75 (Athens - Larissa -Thessaloniki is currnetly under construction and will contain four additional lanes totaling six and tunnels and will open somewhere around2011 .History
The most important ancient cities of Magnesia in the area of the Municipality of Evrymenes were:
Eurymenae or Erymnae (near the modern city Stomio),Homolium (Homolion) or Homole (near the modern village Omolio) ,Rhizus or Rhizous (near the modern village Kokkino Nero).Municipal districts
*"'Karitsa
**Kokkino Nero
**Plateia Ammos
*"'Omolio
*"'Palaiopyrgos
**Alexandrini
*"'Stomio
**Apostolos Pavlos
**Camps of Saint Demetrius
**Monastery of Saint DemetriusPopulation
Other
Evrymenes has primary schools, gymnasium (middle school), lyceum (high school), police station, harbor (port), port station, bank, churches, monastery, post offices and squares ("
plateia ").Notable people
*
Dimitris P. Kraniotis (1966 ) poet and medical doctorExternal links
* [http://www.evrimenon.gr/index.php?pid=1&lg=EN The Official Website of the Municipality of Evrymenes]
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=12666 Evrymenes on GTP Travel Pages]
* Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.8625&longitude=23.734&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.8625&lons1=23.734&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.8625,23.734 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.8625&lon=23.734&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellitehttp://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.8625,23.734&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=39.8625|23.734&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|39|51|53|N|22|44|2|E|type:city(616)_region:GR
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