Proastio, Karditsa

Proasteio or Proastio (Greek, Modern: Προάστιο, Katharevousa: -ον "-on"), older forms: Proasteion and Proastion, also with the a accented is a Greek located south of Karditsa in the western part of the Karditsa Prefecture. Proasteio isserves as the municipal seat of Sellana. Moschato had a population of 1,833 in 2001. Its residents are based in agriculture and other businesses. The village was known as Paraprastena (Παραπράστενα) during the Ottoman rule and the first fifty years with Greece and after the Thessalian War.

Population

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. Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

Other

Proasteio has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office and a square ("plateia"), its nearest and banks are in Morfovouni.

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=12556 Proasteio on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.48445&longitude=21.906&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.48554&lons1=21.906&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.48445,21.906 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.484445&lon=21.906&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.48445,21.906&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=39.48445|21.906&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|39|29|5|N|21|54|1|E|type:city(1,833)_region:GR|display=inline,title

ee also

*List of settlements in the Karditsa prefecture