Country Greece Postal code 401 00 Vehicle registration PIx-xxxx Municipality Elassona Municipal unit Potamia | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Area code(s) +30-2492-xxx-xxx Elevation 150 m Administrative region Thessaly Regional unit Larissa | |
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Vlachogianni (Greek: Βλαχογιάννι, [vlaxo'ʝani]) is a village and a community of the Elassona municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Potamia, of which it was a municipal district and the seat. The 2011 census recorded 895 inhabitants in the village. The community of Vlachogianni covers an area of 33.974 km2.
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Map of Vlachogianni 401 00, Greece
History
Vlachogianni was first mentioned in 1513 in an Ottoman bey's will. In the end of the 16th century the main occupation of the people's residents was the cultivation of Cannabis sativa. In the beginning of the 19th century the village became a chiflik of Ali Pasha.
Economy
The population of Vlachogianni is occupied in animal husbandry and agriculture (mainly tobacco).
Population
According to the 2011 census, the population of the settlement of Vlachogianni was 895 people, a figure almost stable compared with the population of the previous census of 2001.