Valanida (, ) is a village and a
community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
of the
Elassona municipality.
Before the 2011 local government reform, it was part of the municipality of
Elassona
Elassona (; Katharevousa: ) is a town and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit in Greece. During antiquity Elassona was called Oloosson (Ὀλοοσσών) and was a town of the Perrhaebi tribe. It is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus ...
, of which it was a municipal district.
The community of Valanida covers an area of 58.354 km
2.
History
The settlement is recorded as a village and as "Valanida" in the Ottoman Tahrir
Defter
A ''defter'' was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
Etymology
The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus ...
number 101 dating to 1521.
Administrative division
The community of Valanida consists of two separate settlements:
*
Kleisoura
*Valanida
Population
See also
*
List of settlements in the Larissa regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Larissa regional unit, Greece.
* Achilleio
* Aetolofos
* Agia
* Agia Sophia
* Agioi Anargyroi
* Agios Georgios, Farsala
* Agios Georgios, Kileler
* Agnanteri
* Aigani
* Akri
* Alexandrini
* Amouri
...
References
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Populated places in Larissa (regional unit)
Elassona