Oreoi ( el, Ωρεοί) is a village and a former municipality in

Euboea Evia (, ; el, Εύβοια ; grc, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only at its narrowest poin ...

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. It was named after the ancient town

Oreus Oreus or Oreos ( grc, Ὠρεός, Ōreos), prior to the 5th century BC called Histiaea or Histiaia (Ἱστίαια), also Hestiaea or Hestiaia (Ἑστίαια), was a town near the north coast of ancient Euboea, situated upon the river Ca ...

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

Istiaia-Aidipsos Istiaia-Aidipsos ( el, Ιστιαία-Αιδηψός) is a municipality in the Euboea regional unit, Central Greece, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Istiaia. The municipality has an area of 509.204 km2. Municipality The mun ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 49.913 km². Population 3,017 (2011). It is situated on the northwest coast of the island Euboea, by the Oreoi Strait that connects the

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with the North Euboean Gulf. The small port Agiokampos, 5 km west of Oreoi, is served by ferries to Glyfa on the mainland. A large

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statue of a

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from a funerary monument of the 4th century B.C. was raised from the harbour of Oreoi in 1965, and is exhibited in the town.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Oreoi is subdivided into the following communities (2011 census population in square brackets): *Oreoi

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*Kastaniotissa 24*Neos Pyrgos 86*Taxiarchis 98

History

Oreoi was named after the ancient town

, that was also known as Histiaea. Oreus was situated at the eastern edge of the present village Oreoi. Oreoi was part of the municipality of

Istiaia Istiaia ( el, Ιστιαία, , before 1913: Ξηροχώρι - ''Xirochori''2.537 Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Istiaia-Aidipsos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an are ...

until 1912, when it became a separate community. It was elevated to municipality status in 1997. The last mayor of Oreoi, before it was merged into the new municipality

, was Ioannis Stamatiou, elected in 2006.

References

Populated places in Euboea {{CentralGreece-geo-stub