Stylida ( el, Στυλίδα; older Στυλίς, Stylis) is a town and a municipality in

Phthiotis Phthiotis ( el, Φθιώτιδα, ''Fthiótida'', ; ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Φθιῶτις) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia. It is border ...

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. The population of the municipal unit was 6,126 (2011).

History

First mention of the town of Stylida was during ancient times when the town was named

Phalara Phalara ( grc, τὰ Φάλαρα) was a city in Malis in ancient Thessaly that functioned as the port of Lamia. It is located at the modern town of Stylida Stylida ( el, Στυλίδα; older Στυλίς, Stylis) is a town and a municipality i ...

( grc, Φάλαρα). The town has many ancient buildings and artifacts, such as the wall near the church of Agia Ekaterini, the tombs located near Karkali street and a mosaic under the Eleftheriou Venizelou street.

Municipality

The municipality Stylida was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units: *

Echinaioi Echinaioi ( el, Εχιναίοι) is a former municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Stylida, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 133.052 km2. Pop ...

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*Stylida The municipality has an area of 463.863 km², the municipal unit 202.477 km².

Geography

The port town Stylida is situated on the northern shore of the

Malian Gulf The Malian or Maliac Gulf ( el, Μαλιακός Κόλπος, Maliakós Kólpos) is a gulf in the western Aegean Sea. It forms part of the coastline of Greece's region of Phthiotis. The gulf stretches east to west to a distance of , depending on ...

, and at the southern foot of

Mount Othrys Mount Othrys ( el, όρος Όθρυς – ''oros Othrys'', also Όθρη – ''Othri'') is a mountain range of central Greece, in the northeastern part of Phthiotis and southern part of Magnesia. Its highest summit, ''Gerakovouni'', situated on ...

, It is 17 km east of

Lamia LaMia Corporation S.R.L., operating as LaMia (short for ''Línea Aérea Mérida Internacional de Aviación''), was a Bolivian charter airline headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, as an EcoJet subsidiary. It had its origins from the failed ...

, the capital of

Transport

The town is served by rail links to Central Greece via Leianokladi–Stylida branch line. The

Greek National Road 1 Greek National Road 1 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 1, abbreviated as EO1) is the old single carriageway road connecting Athens with Thessaloniki and Evzonoi, the border crossing between Greece and North Macedonia. For most of its length, it has b ...

passes through the town.

Twin towns

* Amelia,

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, since 2002

References

External links

Municipality of Stylida
Municipalities of Central Greece Populated places in Phthiotis {{CentralGreece-geo-stub