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Psachná
Sign in to savePsachna () is a town in Euboea, central Greece, 16 km north of Chalcis. It is built in a small plain in the central-west part of the island. Psachna is the seat of Dirfys-Messapia municipality and the seat of Messapia municipal unit. The town is also known for the Psachna campus of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the football team Iraklis Psachna. Its population is 5,827 residents according to 2011 census.
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It is catalogued under topics including Dirfys-Messapia, Populated places established in the 1470s and Populated places in Euboea.
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Place details
- Locality
- Ψαχνά
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Στερεάς Ελλάδας
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 5,828
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Psachna
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Ψαχνά
- Greek Dimos.type
- community
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Κεντρική πλατεία Ψαχνών 1023.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- The central square of Psachna
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Central Greece
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Euboea
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Dirfys-Messapia
- Greek Dimos.municunit
- Messapia
- Greek Dimos.established_v
- 1470 ( years ago)
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 5721
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΧΑ
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Ψαχνά
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 5827
- Elevation
- 22
- Image
- Κεντρική πλατεία Ψαχνών 1023.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2228
- Patron saint
- Saint Nicholas
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- located in/on physical feature
- Euboea
- Commons category
- Psachna
- native label
- Ψαχνά
- postal code
- 34400
- transliteration or transcription
- Psachna
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Historical population
- Description
- References
Psachna () is a town in Euboea, central Greece, 16 km north of Chalcis. It is built in a small plain in the central-west part of the island. Psachna is the seat of Dirfys-Messapia municipality and the seat of Messapia municipal unit. The town is also known for the Psachna campus of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the football team Iraklis Psachna. Its population is 5,827 residents according to 2011 census.
==History== The settlement of Psachna was built by refugees after the sack of Chalcis in 1470 during the First Ottoman–Venetian War. During the Ottoman occupation, it was a small village with few houses. After Greek independence, refugees from Samos were installed in Psachna, leading to the naming of a district of Psachna as "Samiotika". The population of Psachna was increased in the last century when residents of the more mountainous villages such as Pyxaria, Vavoula, Apogremno moved in. In August 2020, the town and the region was badly hit from catastrophic floods that resulted in 6 deaths.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Psachná” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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