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Paranesti

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Country
  
Greece

Vehicle registration
  
ΡΜ

Local time
  
Thursday 1:09 AM

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Area
  
1,038 km²

Regional unit
  
Drama

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Weather
  
12°C, Wind E at 5 km/h, 79% Humidity

Administrative region
  
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

Paranesti (Greek: Παρανέστι) is a municipality in the Rhodope Mountains of northeastern Drama regional unit, Greece. It consists of two municipal units: Paranesti and Nikoforos. The largest villages of the municipal unit Paranesti are Paranésti (the municipal seat, pop. 625), Mesochório (105), Káto Thólos (123), Χágnanto (43), and Prasináda (32).

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Map of Paranesti 660 35, Greece

The Natural History Museum of Paranesti is located in Paranesti.

Municipality

The municipality Paranesti was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units (constituent communities in brackets):

  • Nikiforos (Adriani, Ano Pyxari, Nikiforos, Platania, Platanovrysi, Ptelea, Ypsili Rachi)
  • Paranesti (Paranesti, Sili, Tholos)

    • The municipality has an area of 1029.392 km2, the municipal unit 788.394 km2.

    References

    Paranesti Wikipedia
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