Krini, Trikala

Krini (Greek: Κρήνη), also with the i accented is a Greek town in the municipality of Oichalia in the southeastern Trikala Prefecture. Krini had a population of 895 in 2001 for the settlement. The origin of the name came from its many springs in which it had a long time ago. Its residents are based in agriculture and other businesses including machinery.

Still, it has a historic maple which in the shade that quenched until the Turkish conquest.

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, the population declined slowly between the 1981 and 1991 but it declined between 1991 and 2001.

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

Krini 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 the outskirts of Trikala.

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=13357 Krini on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.614&longitude=21.0385&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.614&lons1=21.0385&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.614,21.0385 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.614&lon=21.0385&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.614,21.0385&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=39.614|21.0385&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|39|36|48|N|21|0|27|E|type:city(895)_region:GR|display=inline,titlekrini has no lyceum no bank no pharmacy and also no post office but it is a very beautiful small village

ee also

*List of settlements in the Trikala prefecture