Mouresi () is a village and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in Magnesia,

Thessaly Thessaly ( ; ; ancient Aeolic Greek#Thessalian, Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic regions of Greece, geographic and modern administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient Thessaly, a ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. It is situated in the northeastern part of the

Pelion Pelion or Pelium (Modern , ''Pílio''; Ancient Greek/Katharevousa: Πήλιον, ''Pēlion'') is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in northern Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea. Its ...

peninsula. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Zagora-Mouresi Zagora–Mouresi (, ) is a municipality in the Magnesia regional unit, Thessaly, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 54.214 km². The seat of the municipality was in Tsagkarada.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Mouresi is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Agios Dimitrios Piliou (Agios Dimitrios, Agios Ioannis) * Anilio (Anilio, Plaka) *

Kissos Kissos () is a mountain village in the municipal unit of Mouresi, in the eastern part of Magnesia, Greece. It sits on the eastern slopes of the forested Pelion mountains, at about 500 meters elevation, 3 km from the Aegean Sea to the northe ...

*Mouresi (Mouresi, Agios Ioannis, Damouchari) * Tsagkarada (Tsagkarada, Mylopotamos) * Xorychti (Xorychti, Kato Xorychti)

Geography

The municipal unit Mouresi covers the northeastern part of the

peninsula, and is situated on the eastern side of the Pelion mountains, on the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn con ...

coast. The area is mountainous and densely forested. The largest village is Tsagkarada (population 525 in 2011). The village Mouresi lies at 310 m elevation, 1.5 km northwest of Tsagkarada, 2 km southeast of

Agios Dimitrios Agios Dimitrios (Greek: Άγιος Δημήτριος meaning Saint Dimitrios, before 1928: Μπραχάμι - ''Brahami'') is a town in Attica, Greece, and a suburb in the southern part of the Athens agglomeration. Geography Agios Dimitrios is ...

and 7 km southeast of Zagora.

Historical population

References

External links

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Mouresi MunicipalityMouresi on Pelion.org
{{Zagora-Mouresi div Populated places in Pelion Zagora-Mouresi