Valerianos

Valerianos (Greek: Βαλεριάνος), also with the first a accented is a settlement in the island of Kefalonia, Greece. Its 2001 population was 150 for the village.

ettlements

*Atsoupades
*Plateieas

Nearest places

*Atsoupades, north (distance: 1.5 km direct, 5 km by road)
*Chionata, east (less than 1 km)
*Thiramonas, southwest (approximately 2 km)

Population

Location and transportation

Thiramonas is located south of Sami, about 30 km west of Poros and about 24 km east of Argostoli. Thiramonas is connected with the Argostoli-Poros Road which is nearly 3 km west. It is connected with a road linking Argostoli and Skala. The road sees the villages and accesses further west.

The village has about 4 km of paved road and about 3 to 4 km of gravel road. It has about 4 km of hydro lines and some phone lines.

Geography

Its geography are mountainous and are made up of farmlands. It sits on a mountain slope, the area are mainly deforested. Farmlands are within the village.

History

Valerianos was ruled by the Venetians until the Napoleonic Wars when it was French mostly throughout, it was briefly Russian and Ottoman with autonomous administration, and again French, after the invasion until 1864, it became a part of Britain with its possession, the United States of the Ionian Islands until it finally ceded to Greece. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, some of its buildings were rebuilt. Thiramonas was dramatically devastated by the 1953 Ionian Earthquake and took a few years to rebuild with modern architecture and a disappearance of stone built houses. Arginia became connected with asphalt in the 1970s. More pavement was accessed in the 1990s. Electricity, radio and automobiles were introduced in the mid-20th century, television in the late-20th century and computer and internet at the turn of the millennium. Its population lost the most between 1981 and 1991 but it recovered in 2001.

Panorama

Valerianos offers a view of the Ionian Sea and the slope area along with the southern Mount Ainos and the southern part of the island, it also offers a view of the island of Zakynthos and a part of the mainland. Its mountain blocks most of the view of the rest of the mainland.

Economy

Its main economy is agriculture, its main production includes olives, cattle, fruits, vegetables and other crops.

Other

Valerianos has a church, and a square ("plateia"). Its nearest school is in Valerianos and Chionata and its gymnasium (middle school), lyceum (secondary school) are in Poros or Pessada?.

ee also

*List of places in the Kefalonia prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=6331 Valerianos at the GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=38.0725&longitude=20.715&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/mapz.aspx?&lats1=38.0725&longs=20.715&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=38.0725,20.715 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=38.0725&lon=20.715&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
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*Coordinates: coord|38|4|45|N|20|42|54|E|type:city(150)_region:GR