Stomio ( el, Στόμιο , ) is a village and a
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...
of the
Agia municipality.
Before the 2011 local government reform it was the seat of the municipality of
Evrymenes.
The 2011 census recorded 553 inhabitants in the village.
The community of Stomio covers an area of 37.985 km
2.
Geography
It is situated 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, south of the mouth of the river
Pineios, and at the foot of densely vegetated
Mount Ossa. It is 13 km southeast of
Pyrgetos Pyrgetos ( el, Πυργετός) is a village in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality of Kato Olympos, which has been part of the municipality of Tempi since 2011. Its elevation is 140 m. In 2011 ...
, 17 km north of
Agia and 37 km northeast of
Larissa
Larissa (; el, Λάρισα, , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,651 according to the 2011 census. It is also capital of the Larissa regiona ...
.
History
The ancient city
Eurymenae
Eurymenae or Eurymenai ( grc, Εὐρυμεναί or Εὐρυμέναι) or Erymnae or Erymnai (Ὲρυμναί) was a town and polis (city-state) in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly, situated upon the Aegean Sea coast at the foot of Mount Ossa, betw ...
(also ''Erymnae'') was situated near present Stomio. The Greek Orthodox
Monastery of Saint Demetrius, situated on the mountain slope above Stomio, was founded in the 6th century and rebuilt in its present form in the 12th century by
Byzantine emperor
This is a list of the Byzantine emperors from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD, which marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, to its fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as le ...
Alexios I Komnenos
Alexios I Komnenos ( grc-gre, Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός, 1057 – 15 August 1118; Latinized Alexius I Comnenus) was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was not the first emperor of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during ...
. Before 1927 Stomio was named Tsagezi ( el, Τσάγεζι), deriving from the Turkish ''Çay ağzı'' which translates to "river mouth". (Çay = river, ağız = mouth, ağzı = the mouth).
Name changes of settlements in Greece
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Population
According to the 2011 census, the population of the settlement of Omolio was 553 people, a decrease of almost 7% compared with the population of the previous census of 2001.
See also
*List of settlements in the Larissa regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Larissa regional unit, Greece.
* Achilleio
* Aetolofos
* Agia
* Agia Sophia
* Agioi Anargyroi
* Agios Georgios, Farsala
* Agios Georgios, Kileler
* Agnanteri
* Aigani
* Akri
* Alexandrini
* Amouri
* ...
References
External links
Stomio on GTP Travel Pages
{{Beaches of Larissa Peripheral Unit
Populated places in Larissa (regional unit)