Aspropotamos is a former community

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 in the Trikala peripheral unit, Thessaly

Thessaly

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, Greece

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kalampaka

Kalampaka

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, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 1,404 (2001 census), mainly Vlachs/Aromanians. The seat of the community was in Kallirroi (pop. 150). The community was named after the river Aspropotamos, a tributary of the Acheloos. Aspropotamos is located west-northwest of Trikala

Trikala

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 northeast of Arta

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 and east of Ioannina

Ioannina

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, in the westernmost part of Trikala peripheral unit. The largest settlements in the municipal unit are Agía Paraskeví (pop. 296) and Kranéa (243).

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Aspropotamos is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

• Agia Paraskevi
• Anthousa
  Anthousa, Trikala
  Anthousa is a Greek village in the municipal unit of Aspropotamos in the western part of the Trikala Prefecture, located 65 km west of Kalambaka, west of city of Trikala, northwest of Larissa and south of Grevena. It was known as Lepenitsa until the early 20th century. Anthousa had a...
  
  
• Chaliki
• Kallirroi
• Katafyto (Katafyto, Milia)
• Krania (Krania, Doliana, Konakia)
• Polythea
• Stefani

History

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.

External links

• Local website
• Aspropotamos on GTP Travel Pages