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Frixa

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Country
  
Greece

Local time
  
Friday 11:26 PM

Administrative region
  
Western Greece

Regional unit
  
Elis

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Municipality
  
Andritsaina-Krestena

Municipal unit
  
Skillounta

Frixa

Weather
  
8°C, Wind NE at 5 km/h, 78% Humidity

Frixa (Greek: Φρίξα, before 1916: Ανεμοχωράκιον - Anemochorakion) is a village in the municipal unit of Skillounta, Elis, Greece. In 2011 its population was 200 for the village and 309 for the community, which includes the village Anemochoraki. Frixa is on a hill near the left bank of the river Alfeios, 2 km northeast of Skillountia, 7 km southeast of Olympia and 8 km northeast of Krestena.

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Map of Frixa 270 55, Greece

History

Phrixa was a hilltop town in the ancient land of Pisa. The town was already ruined in Pausanias' days (2nd century AD). It had a temple of Cydonian Athena. It was said that the temple was founded by Clymenus from Kydonia in Crete, a descendant of Heracles of Ida.

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Frixa Wikipedia