Plastiras ( el, Πλαστήρας, Δήμος Πλαστήρα) is 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 the Karditsa regional unit,

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 ...

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

Lake Plastiras Lake Plastiras ( el, Λίμνη Πλαστήρα) also called Tavropos Reservoir ( el, Τεχνητή Λίμνη Ταυρωπού) is an artificial lake fed by Tavropos (Megdovas) river, located in Karditsa regional unit, near the city of Kar ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 93.166 km². It was named after the Greek general and Prime Minister

Nikolaos Plastiras Nikolaos Plastiras ( el, Νικόλαος Πλαστήρας; 4 November 1883 – 26 July 1953) was a Greek general and politician, who served thrice as Prime Minister of Greece. A distinguished soldier known for his personal bravery, he b ...

. Population 2,412 (2011).

covers a part of the municipal unit. Its residents are engaged chiefly in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. The seat of the municipality was in Morfovouni.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Plastiras is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Kerasea (Kerasea, Nevropoli) * Lampero (Lampero, Agios Athanasios) * Mesenikolas * Morfovouni (Morfovouni, Razia) *

Moschato Moschato ( el, Μοσχάτο) is a suburb in the southwestern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Moschato-Tavros, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Geograph ...

(Moschato, Agios Nikolaos, Tsardaki)

Population

External links

Plastiras Lake - Λίμνη Πλαστήρα

Plastiras on GTP Travel Pages

Plastiras Lake

References

{{Plastiras Populated places in Karditsa (regional unit) el:Δήμος Λίμνης Πλαστήρα#Πλαστήρα