GONNOI

'Gonnoi' or 'Gonni' (Greek: Γόννοι), Roman and Ancient form: 'Gonnus', Greek form: 'Gonnos' is a town and a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture, Greece. Population 3,119 (2001), the municipal seat is of the homonymous name. Gonnoi is connected with the road linking Larissa and Mount Olympus and its skiing resort even Kallithea Elassonas, Thessaly's most popular. The Pineios River is to the southeast along with the Tempe.

Contents

Nearest places

Municipal districts

Population

Ancient Gonnoi

History

Other

See also

External links

Nearest places

★ Municipality of Kato Olympos, north

★ Municipality of Makrychori, south

★ Municipality of Ampelonas, west

★ Community of Ampelakia, east

Municipal districts

The municipality of Gonnoi consists of the following villages:

★ Elia

★ 'Gonnoi' (the capital)

★ Itea

★ Kallipefki

Population

Year	Settlement population	Change	Municipal district population	Municipal population	Change	Percent of the municipal district	Percent of the municipality	Percent of the prefecture
1981	2,660	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1991	2,443	-217 or -8.16%	-	3,622	-	-	-	-
2001	2,190	-253 or -10.36%	2,288	3,119	+94 or +28.7%	95.72%	70.21% (town) 73.36% (municipal district)	1.12%

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world, the population declined between 1981 and 2001.

Ancient Gonnoi

In a hillside near the contemporary Gonnoi, called "Kastri" (ie castle), lies the ancient city of Gonnoi.

History

The area was later ruled by the Kingdom of Macedonia, the Roman, the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires, the final non-Greek rule lasted for several years, its name during the Ottoman rule was 'Dereli' (Δερελή or Ντερελή), it saw the Greek War of Independence of 1821 to end its struggle but they lost and continued until 1881. Gonnoi fully became a part of Greece after liberating much of Thessaly in 1881, when Greeks from Rapsani and other near places came to replace Turks that moved away. Its main income has been poor. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many buildings were rebuilt, several remain and repaired. Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

Other

Gonnoi has a school, a lyceum (high school), a gymnasium (secondary school) and primary school (Dimotiko) a few churches,a folklore museum, bank, a post office and a square (''plateia''), and Health Center (primitive health care).

See also

★ List of settlements in the Larissa prefecture

External links

★ Official website

★ Gonnoi (municipality) on GTP Travel Pages

★ Gonnoi (town) on GTP Travel Pages

★ 'Map and aerial photos':

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★ Street map information from: Mapquest, LiveLocal or Google orYahoo! Maps

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★ Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available