Potamia, Elassona
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Potamia () is a former
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the Larissa regional unit,
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,
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Elassona Elassona (; Katharevousa: ) is a town and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit in Greece. During antiquity Elassona was called Oloosson (Ὀλοοσσών) and was a town of the Perrhaebi tribe. It is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus ...
, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 3,139 (2021). The municipal unit has an area of 200.279 km2. The seat of the municipality was in Vlachogianni. The name of the municipality comes from the greek word "potamià" meaning "land with many rivers" (from ''potamòs'', river).


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Populated places in Larissa (regional unit) Elassona {{Thessaly-geo-stub