Mouresi ( el, Μουρέσι) is a village and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in Magnesia,

Thessaly Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thes ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

. It is situated in the northeastern part of the

Pelion Pelion or Pelium (Modern el, Πήλιο, ''Pílio''; Ancient Greek/Katharevousa: Πήλιον, ''Pēlion'') is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in northern Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the ...

peninsula. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Zagora-Mouresi Zagora–Mouresi ( el, Ζαγορά-Μουρέσι, ) is a municipality in the Magnesia regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Zagora. The municipality has an area of 150.315 km2. Municipality The municipality ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 54.214 km². The seat of the municipality was in

Tsagkarada Tsagkarada ( el, Τσαγκαράδα) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Mouresi in the eastern part of Magnesia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Mouresi. It is situated at 408 m elevation, on the eastern slo ...

. In 2011 the population of the village Mouresi was 485, that of the community Mouresi was 548, and of the municipal unit 2,475.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Mouresi is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Agios Dimitrios Piliou (Agios Dimitrios, Agios Ioannis) * Anilio (Anilio, Plaka) *

Kissos Kissos ( el, Κισσός) is a mountain village in the municipal unit of Mouresi, in the eastern part of Magnesia, Greece. It sits on the eastern slopes of the forested Pelion mountains, at about 500 meters elevation, 3 km from the Aegean S ...

*Mouresi (Mouresi, Agios Ioannis, Damouchari) *

(Tsagkarada, Mylopotamos) *

Xorychti Xorychti ( el, Ξορύχτι) a village and a community in the municipal unit of Mouresi in the eastern part of Magnesia, Greece. It is situated at 420 m elevation, on the eastern slope of the forested Pelion mountains. Its population in 2011 was ...

(Xorychti, Kato Xorychti)

Geography

The municipal unit Mouresi covers the northeastern part of the

peninsula, and is situated on the eastern side of the Pelion mountains, on the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek language, Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish language, Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It ...

coast. The area is mountainous and densely forested. The largest village is

(population 525 in 2011). The village Mouresi lies at 310 m elevation, 1.5 km northwest of Tsagkarada, 2 km southeast of

Agios Dimitrios Agios Dimitrios (Greek: Άγιος Δημήτριος meaning Saint Dimitrios, before 1928: Μπραχάμι - ''Brahami'') is a suburb in the southern part of the Athens, Greece. Geography Agios Dimitrios is situated 5 km south of Athens c ...

and 7 km southeast of Zagora.

Historical population

References

External links

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Mouresi MunicipalityMouresi (municipal unit) on GTP Travel Pages

Mouresi (village) on GTP Travel Pages

Mouresi on Pelion.org
{{Zagora-Mouresi div Populated places in Pelion