Skotina () is a

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of the former municipality of East Olympos, itself part of the municipality of Dion-Olympos, in the Pieria regional unit,

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Name

The name is taken due to handmade costumes (woolen fabrics, handmade costumes), which were made in the region that made the cloaks and the sails for sailing ships of the era.

Geography

The village is built on the southeastern edge of the

mount Olympus Mount Olympus (; el, Όλυμπος, Ólympos, also , ) is the highest mountain in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, be ...

, 32 km from the city of

Katerini Katerini ( el, Κατερίνη, ''Kateríni'', ) is a city and municipality in northern Greece, the capital city of Pieria regional unit in Central Macedonia, Greece. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermaikos Gulf, a ...

, and has a view towards the

Thermaic Gulf The Thermaic Gulf (), also called the Gulf of Salonika and the Macedonian Gulf, is a gulf constituting the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. The city of Thessaloniki is at its northeastern tip, and it is bounded by Pieria Imathia and Lariss ...

. Ancient places nearby are

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(4 km) and Leivithra (2 km).

Population

The community of Skotina had a population 949 inhabitants as of 2011. The community consists of the settlements of Skotina, Paralia Skotinas and the nowadays uninhabited Palia Skotina.

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Notes

*Encyclopedia Μαλλιάρης- Παιδεία, Volume 24, p. 27. {{Authority control Populated places in Pieria (regional unit) Mount Olympus

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