Elassona

Elassona (; ) is a town and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit of Greece. In antiquity, it was known as Oloosson (Ὀλοοσσών) and was a town of the Perrhaebi tribe. It is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Elassona is bypassed by the GR-3 road (Larissa–Kozani–Florina).

Key facts

Greek Dimos.name: Elassona
Greek Dimos.name_local: Ελασσόνα
Greek Dimos.type: municipality
Greek Dimos.image_map: 2011 Dimos Elassonas.png
Greek Dimos.periph: Thessaly
Greek Dimos.periphunit: Larissa
Greek Dimos.pop_municipality: 25459
Greek Dimos.area_municipality: 1565.2
Greek Dimos.pop_municunit: 10183
Greek Dimos.area_municunit: 291.1
Greek Dimos.pop_community: 7476
Greek Dimos.area_community: 102.5
Greek Dimos.image_skyline: MakElassona05.jpg
Greek Dimos.caption_skyline: View of Elassona
Greek Dimos.elevation: 308
Greek Dimos.population_as_of: 2021
Greek Dimos.postal_code: 402 00
Greek Dimos.area_code: 2410

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: town
Country: Greece
Population: 7338
Elevation: 284
Image: Ελασσόνα 4146.jpg
Dialing code: 2493

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Commons category: Elassona
located in/on physical feature: Thessaly
topic's main category: Category:Elassona
postal code: 40200
native label: Ελασσόνα

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Antiquity and Middle Ages
Ottoman Era
Municipality
Subdivisions
Municipal changes
Province
Population
Geography
Transportation
Landmarks and monuments
Footnotes
References
External links

==History== left|thumb|An early photograph in Servet-i Fünun|Servet-i Fünûn journal with French & Ottoman Turkish captions from Elassona during the Ottoman Era: "A Valley near Elassona" Due to its location on the passes leading from the Thessalian plain to Macedonia, the site of Elassona was always of some strategic importance.

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