Melivoia
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For the settlement in the Xanthi prefecture, see Melivia, Xanthi
Melivoia or Melivia (Greek: Μελίβοια (Meliboea) ) is a town and a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture, Greece. Population 3,472 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Kato Sotiritsa. Melivoia is located east of the capital of the prefecture and Thessaly, Larissa and a few kilometers north of Agia. The mountains surround the area and the Aegean Sea is to the northeast. It is the location of the ancient city and was known as Meliboea. The Magnesia prefecture is bounded 20 to 25 km southeast. The municipality is mainly within the Aegean Sea.
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After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world, the population boomed between 1981 and 1991 but declined between 1991 and 2001. IndustryIts main industry are agriculture and tourism with a couple of businesses and services. HistoryMelivoia fully became a part of Greece after liberating much of Thessaly in 1881. Its main income has been poor. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many buildings were rebuilt, several remain and repaired. Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s. Tourism exploded but not as much as Magnesia, Southern Greece and Halkidiki, it has several hotels, bars, restaurants and taverns by the Aegean. The worst event that arrived to Melivia was the forest fire (see also Summer 2007 Wildfires in Greece), the fire began not far from Agia on June 27, 2007 and spread for kilometres reaching the town destroying several trees and houses leaving several people homeless, several others were mainly from larger towns and cities of Greece. It consumed approximately 50 to 100 km², it disintegrated on June 29. TransportIt has several roads in the municipality including the road linking Agia and Melivoia and another linking Melivoia and Sklithro. OtherMelivoia has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office and a square (plateia), its nearest hospital is in Larissa. External links
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