Koliri, is one of the biggest villages near Pyrgos, Greece

Greece

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, in the prefecture of Ilia. The GR-74

Greek National Road 74

Greek National Road 74 is a highway linking Pyrgos, Olympia, Tripoli and GR-7/E65. The west to east highway runs in the western and the central part of the Peloponnese. The highway begins in Pyrgos and into the hills and Olympia and used to ran through narrow roads which now bypasses Pyrgos and...

 (Tripoli - Olympia - Pyrgos) is 2 km south and the GR-9

Greek National Road 9

Greek National Road 9 is the second-longest national highway of Greece. It runs through the western Peloponnese, from Patras to Pylos. Its length is around .This highway travels near:*Bypasses:*Patras and Area, since 2002*Vrachneika*Alissos*Kato Achaia...

/E55

European route E55

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 (Patras - Pyrgos - Kyparissia) is west of the junction and about 3 to 4 km from the village.

Nearest places

• Varvassena, southeast
• Pyrgos
  Pyrgos, Elis
  Pyrgos is the capital of the Elis peripheral unit in Greece. It is named after a local tower. The city is located in the western part of the Peloponnese, in the middle of a plain near the Ionian Sea. It is 96 km away from Patras via Greek National Road 9, 320 km from Athens, and...
  
  , southwest
• Agios Georgios, Pyrgos, WNW

Location

It is located two kilometers northeast from Pyrgos

Pyrgos, Elis

Pyrgos is the capital of the Elis peripheral unit in Greece. It is named after a local tower. The city is located in the western part of the Peloponnese, in the middle of a plain near the Ionian Sea. It is 96 km away from Patras via Greek National Road 9, 320 km from Athens, and...

 and nearly 18 km west of Olympia

Olympia, Greece

Olympia , a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. Both games were held every Olympiad , the Olympic Games dating back possibly further than 776 BC...

, on a small hill and it has a population of about 1,000 people (Its population, according to the 2001 census, is 1,061 inhabitants, 708 for the village) , and it's commonly known for its very good taverns. It has two churches: the Church of Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...

 and the Church of the Saints Theodore. Its elevation is 90 m.

Population

Year	Village population	Municipal district population
1981	-	1,012
1991	815	-
2001	708	1,061

History

It has taken its name by the bird kolirion, which used to fly over the region.

Koliri was one of the villages which were hit by the fires of August 2007

2007 Greek forest fires

The 2007 Greek forest fires were a series of massive forest fires that broke out in several areas across Greece throughout the summer of 2007. The most destructive and lethal infernos broke out on August 23, expanded rapidly and raged out of control until August 27, until they were put out in early...

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Some houses in the village were burned. The dense forests near Koliri are now black woods, including many olive

Olive

The olive , Olea europaea), is a species of a small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin as well as northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the...

 grove

Grove (nature)

A grove is a small group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth, such as a sequoia grove, or a small orchard planted for the cultivation of fruits or nuts...

s.
Luckily, 2 years after the fires, many small pine trees have appeared, as the forest regenerate itself.

Economy

Most of the people are farmers,and the highest percentage of them are Olive

Olive

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 producers.
A lot of people also have fields with orange

Orange (fruit)

An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....

 and lemon

Lemon

The lemon is both a small evergreen tree native to Asia, and the tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind are also used, mainly in cooking and baking...

 trees.
Those who are not farmers work in the private or public sector in the nearby city of Pyrgos.

General information

Koliri has a football team called Anatoli (meaning Sunrise in greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

),which play in the local championship.

External links

• Koliri at the GTP Travel Pages