KARDITSA PREFECTURE

'Karditsa' is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Thessaly periphery, and is mostly an agricultural prefecture , one with no provinces.The capital of this prefecture is the city of Karditsa, a small city of approximately 35,000 people. The prefecture is known for its beautiful countryside and friendly people, while the Dimotiki Agora (Δημοτική Αγορά) or Public Market is found in the city and forms one of UNESCO's protected cultural monuments.
The city is also an important knowledge centre, supporting the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Thessaly, the Faculty of Wood and Furniture Technology, and the Faculty of Forestry Technology of the Educational and Technological Institution of Larissa. There is also a police academy.
Karditsa is about 300 kilometers from Athens, and can be reached by bus or train from Athens and Thessaloniki. It is located SSE of Trikala, SW of Larissa and NE of Arta.
The western half of the prefecture is dominated by the Pindus mountains, famous for the Agrafa region of Greece.
Karditsa is bounded by the prefectures of Trikala to the north, Larissa to the east, Phthiotis to the southeast, Aetolia-Acarnania and Evrytania to the southwest and Arta to the west. The main rivers are Megdova to the south, one, another to the northwest to the east and the Pineios River to the north.

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History

People

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Notable Figures

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Geography

The farmlands dominate the central and the eastern part which is part of the Thessalian Plain while the Agrafa mountains dominate the southern and the western part. The Plastiras Dam and Lake Plastiras is to the south which supplies water to the plains and the central part of Greece.

Population

★ 2001: 121,775

History

The present day Karditsa prefecture was in the Kingdom of Macedonia and later the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, Great Wallachia, the Ottoman Empire from the 1400s until 1881 and finally Greece after the liberation of Thessaly and northcentral Greece. Its economy and agriculture boomed during that period ; Karditsa was administered as the Trikala-Karditsa prefecture until 1947. It was affected by World War II and the