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Ano Lechonia

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Country
  
Greece

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Vehicle registration
  
BO

Area code
  
24230

Administrative region
  
Thessaly

Regional unit
  
Magnesia

Lowest elevation
  
75 m (246 ft)

Postal code
  
370 06

Local time
  
Sunday 4:25 AM

Municipality
  
Volos

Municipal unit
  
Artemida


Weather
  
11°C, Wind NE at 0 km/h, 85% Humidity

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Ano Lechonia (Greek: Άνω Λεχώνια) is a town in the Magnesia regional unit, Greece. Ano Lechonia was the seat of the former municipality of Artemida. The population of the village in 2011 was 1,068, the population of the community (including the coastal village Platinidia) was 1,429. Ano Lechonia is situated in the northwestern part of the Pelion peninsula, 1.5 km from the Pagasetic Gulf coast, 3 km southwest of Agios Georgios Nileias, 4 km southeast of Agria and 11 km (7 mi) southeast of Volos.

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Map of Ano Lechonia 373 00, Greece

Steam excursion at pelion mountain ano lechonia milies


History

The name Lechonia may come from the Slavic word lech meaning "field". Historians say it was the ancient city Methone. At the hill named Nevestiki the ruins of an ancient wall have been found. The residents of Methone supported the Argonauts with ships.

After four centuries of Ottoman rule, Ano Lechonia became part of Greece in 1881, as a consequence of the transfer of Thessaly to Greece following the Treaty of Berlin (1878). It was connected by a railway to Volos in 1895.

References

Ano Lechonia Wikipedia