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Katerini Municipal Park where there is a small artificial lake. Katerini lies in the middle of a plain and is thus an agricultural city. 26,775 people were employed in agriculture in Pieria as of 2000. [98] There is cultivation of tobacco in the region and a lot of people spend considerable resources for its development and for exports of the ...
Regions of the Greek islands. Greece has many islands, [Note 1] with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 [1] to 6,000, [2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 [3] and 227. [2] The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the ...
Paralia (Greek: Παραλία, Paralía, meaning "beach") is a tourist seaside settlement and a former municipality in the eastern part of the Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Katerini, of which it is a municipal unit. [2] The seat of the municipality was in Kallithea.
Olympiaki Akti (Greek: Ολυμπιακή Ακτή, also known as Olympic Beach and Olympic Coast) is a village in the Katerini municipality, Greece.It is also still domestically known by its initial name Katerinoskala (Κατερινόσκαλα) which can be literally expressed as "Katerini's staircase".
Map of earthquakes in Greece and adjacent countries 1900–2017. Greece is a mostly mountainous country with a very long coastline, filled with peninsulas and islands. The climate can range from semi-desert to cold climate mountain forests. Greece's natural hazards include severe earthquakes, floods, droughts and wildfires.
Elatochori (Greek: Ελατοχώρι) is a village and a community of the Katerini municipality. [2] Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Pierioi, of which it was a municipal district. [2] The 2021 census recorded 447 inhabitants in the village. [1] The community of Elatochori covers an area of 38.872 km 2 ...
The Metropolis of Kitros, Katerini, and Platamon (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Κίτρους, Κατερίνης και Πλαταμώνος) is an Eastern Orthodox metropolis of the Church of Constantinople, but is de facto is administered (by agreement) for practical reasons as part of the Church of Greece.
Medieval map of Santorini by Cristoforo Buondelmonti. As with other Greek territories, Thera then was ruled by the Romans. When the Roman Empire was divided, the island passed to the eastern side of the Empire which today is known as the Byzantine Empire. [19]