Evangelismos () is a settlement of the municipal unit of
Makrychori
Makrychori (, Katharevousa: Μακρυχώριον) is a former municipality in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balka ...
, which belongs to the municipality of
Tempi in the
Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece.
Evangelismos is built at an altitude of 50 meters
NE of the regional capital, Larissa, in close proximity to the
Vale of Tempe
The Vale of Tempe or Tembi (; ; ) is a gorge in the Tempi municipality of northern Thessaly, Greece, located between Olympus to the north and Ossa to the south, and between the regions of Thessaly and Macedonia. The gorge was known to the Byz ...
and the mountain range of Ossa. Until 1997, it was the seat of the homonymous community of the province of Larissa, while then it was part of the Kapodistrian municipality of Makrychori. In 2011, it came under the Kallikrat municipality of Tempi.
At the beginning of 2016 at S.E.A. of the area temporarily accommodated refugees passing through from the Middle East.
On 28 February 2023, at 23:21
EET, the area near the settlement was the
scene of a head-on collision between an
InterCity
InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the train categories in Europe, classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to InterRegio, regional train, r ...
service and an
intermodal train going in the opposite direction on the same stretch of track. With ≥57 dead, ≥85 injured and 2 unaccounted for, it is the single worst railway disaster in the history of
railways in Greece.
Population censuses
References
External links
Ευαγγελισμός Λάρισας on wikimapia
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Populated places in Larissa (regional unit)
Tempi (municipality)