Grizano

Grizano (Greek, Modern: Γριζάνο), older form: -on, part of the Farkadona municipality, is a town in the Trikala Prefecture, Greece. Its 2001 population was 1,548 for the village and is ranked the second largest community (not as the fomer communities) in the municipality that includes villages and towns. Grizano is located southwest of Tyrnavos, west of Larissa, north-northeast of Karditsa and east of the city of Trikala.

Population

Geography

Its geography are made up of residential area in the central part, the mountains with grasslands to the north and east along with forest and some to the south and farmlands to the west and east. The village is divided between the Thessalian Plain and the mountains to the north.

History

Grizano was not Greek until the liberation of much Thessaly as well as the modern southeastern Arta Prefecture in 1881.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world, the population grew has grew since 1981 and rapidly between 1991 and 2001.

Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1970s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

Other

Grizano has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office and a square ("plateia").

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=13340 Grizano on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.6273&longitude=22.052&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.6273&lons1=22.053&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.6507,22.053 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.6273&lon=22.053&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.6273,22.053&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=39.6273|22.053&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|39|37|41|N|21|3|0|E|type:city(1,548)_region:GR|display=inline,title

ee also

*List of settlements in the Trikala prefecture