Trikeri (, ''Tríkeri'') is a town and a former

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in Magnesia,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Pelion, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies at the westernmost point of the hook-like

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 on the Pagasetic Gulf. It also includes the offshore islands of Palaio Trikeri and Alatas. The municipal unit has a total population of 992 inhabitants (2021 census), and a land area of . Its largest settlements are the towns of Trikeri and Agia Kyriaki (), both on the mainland. From 1947 the island of Trikeri was used as a concentration camp for female left-wing political prisoners during the Greek Civil War. The women and children were relatives of members of the EAM-ELAS, the resistance forces which had fought against fascist occupation during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. In September 1949 political activists from other camps were sent to Trikeri, increasing the number of people held there to 4,700.Victoria Theodorou (Ed.) 'The Trikeri Journal' in Eleni Fourtouni, ''Greek Women in Resistance,'' (Thelphini, 1986), pp. 105 - 111

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Populated places in Pelion South Pelion {{Thessaly-geo-stub