Melissa, Elis

For other uses, see Melissa (disambiguation).

Melissa Μέλισσα
Location
Melissa
Coordinates	37°57′N 21°22′E / 37.95°N 21.367°E / 37.95; 21.367Coordinates: 37°57′N 21°22′E / 37.95°N 21.367°E / 37.95; 21.367
Government
Country:	Greece
Region:	West Greece
Regional unit:	Elis
Municipality:	Andravida-Kyllini
Municipal unit:	Lechaina
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Community
- Population:	328
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Telephone:	26230

Melissa (Greek: Μέλισσα meaning bee) is a village in the municipal unit of Lechaina in the Prefecture of Elis, Greece. It was known as Zogka until the 20th century. Its 2001 population was 328 for the village. Its elevation is 137 m. It is 7 km E of Lechaina, and 9 km W of Borsi. The community includes the hamlet of Melissia which is just southeast on the other side of the valley.

Nearest places

• Agioi Theodoroi, west
• Ano Kourtesi, northwest
• Aetorrachi, east
• Melissia, south
• Olga, south

Historical population

Year	Population
1981	595
1991	224
2001	328

About the village

The village has a school in the west, a church named Agios Tryphonas and also a square, and a communal centre. The village is on a hilly setting lying just north of the ravine, and a small one to its east. It is connected by only one east-west paved road while others are accessed by gravel. It is an agricultural village with the majority live in rural areas. It is surrounded by a few forests and groves to the north. Outside the village has a spring in the west.

In 1993, an evening fire burnt almost the entire community's worth of farmland, forest but didn't reached the entire village but cut off power supply for a day, but the streetlights weren't until about a week after.

The community used to include the entire eastern half of the municipality, Agios Charalampos and Borsi.

See also

• List of places in the Ilia prefecture

External links

• GTP - Melissa

References