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Emmanouil Pappas (municipality)

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Country
  
Greece

Vehicle registration
  
ΕΡ

Local time
  
Friday 5:25 AM

Regional unit
  
Serres

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Area
  
338.8 km²

Administrative region
  
Central Macedonia

Emmanouil Pappas (municipality)

Weather
  
8°C, Wind SE at 5 km/h, 89% Humidity

Emmanouil Pappas (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Παππάς) is a municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is in Chryso. The municipality takes its name after a local historical figure who played an important part as a leader in the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule. Emmanouil Pappas was born in the village that was previously called Dovista (Δοβίστα), probably of Slavic origin, though historians are uncertain of the exact root of that word. One conjecture involves the mispronunciation of the Latin 'Dove est', meaning 'where is it?', because, apparently, the village was undetectable from a distance.

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Map of Emmanouil Pappas 620 48, Greece

Municipality

The municipality Emmanouil Pappas was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

  • Emmanouil Pappas
  • Strymonas
  • The municipality has an area of 337.922 km2, the municipal unit 217.539 km2.

    References

    Emmanouil Pappas (municipality) Wikipedia