Agios Nikolaos (Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος) is a village in the municipal unit of
Eleios-Pronnoi
Eleios-Pronnoi ( el, Ελειός-Πρόννοι) is a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argostoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The m ...
on the island
Cephalonia
Kefalonia or Cephalonia ( el, Κεφαλονιά), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It i ...
,
Greece
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. Its population is 96 people (2011 census).
It is situated in an inland valley, at 280 m elevation. It is 3 km southeast of
Digaleto, 4 km north of
Xenopoulo, 6 km northwest of
Poros
Poros ( el, Πόρος) is a small Greece, Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south from the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas, Troizina, Galatas on ...
and 20 km east of
Argostoli
Argostoli ( el, Αργοστόλι, Katharevousa: Ἀργοστόλιον) is a town and a municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is one of the three municipalities on the island ...
. The road from Poros to
Sami
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passes through the village. Agios Nikolaos suffered great damage from the
1953 Ionian earthquake
The 1953 Ionian earthquake (also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake) struck the southern Ionian Islands in Greece on August 12. In mid-August, there were over 113 recorded earthquakes in the region between Kefalonia and Zakynthos, and the m ...
. The village has an elementary school and a church dedicated to
Saint Gerasimos.
Population
See also
*
List of settlements in Cephalonia
This is a list of settlements in Cephalonia, Greece.
* Agia Effimia
* Agia Eirini
* Agia Thekla
* Agios Nikolaos
* Agkonas
* Antipata Erisou
* Arginia
* Argostoli
* Asos
* Atheras
* Chaliotata, Sami Σάμη. 2 km SE of Poulata.
* ...
References
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Eleios-Pronnoi
Populated places in Cephalonia