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THE Tyrnavos (16,900 inhabitants), or older Tournavos, is the fifth most populous city Thessaly and is located at Prefecture of Larissa. It is the capital of the homonymous province, known for its local tsipouro and ouzo, as well as for the Dionysian carnival, and the only custom in the world, Bourani.
At a glance
The seat of the municipality is located at an altitude of 90 m. At the foot of Mount Melouna and at a distance of 16 km NW from the city of Larissa, at the crossroads of highways that connect the plain. Of Larissa with the Elassona. Also, another road axis, following the foot of lower Olympus, connects the municipality with the valley of Tempi.
History
Tyrnavos was from the very old years a developed and numerous area. Evidence of existence in the place of the present city exists from the late Byzantine period. During the 14th century, this settlement probably shrunk a lot or was abandoned for a while, due to the successive raids of Serbs, Albanians, Catalans and Turks, which stopped in 1423 with the final conquest of Thessaly by the Turkish general Turahan. Turahan re-established the city and settled for a long time in the area, which was given to him as a gift by the Sultan.
This was followed by the great prosperity of Tyrnavos, which around the 17th and 18th centuries reached 4,000 houses, ie about 20,000 inhabitants. Most of them were Greeks. E. Brown, who visited the city in 1666, gave the impression that it was very important, as he had seen 18 churches and 3 mosques.
With the advent of the 19th century came the final decline of Tyrnavos. From the diary of the English traveler W. Leake we learn that in 1806 Tyrnavos included 1,500 families, of which 70 were Turkish. According to the diary of Francis Puckeville, in 1815 only 3,000 Greeks and some Turks lived in the city. Two years later, in 1817, Larissa Ioannis Oikonomou reports that in Tyrnavos there were only 1,000 houses, 14-15 churches, 2 monasteries and 5-6 mosques. In 1836, Ioannis Leonardos visited Tyrnavos, who states that despite what the city suffered from the campaigns against the Greeks, it always remains prosperous with 3,000 Greek inhabitants. The remaining Turks were only 100 and of the 6 mosques that existed 20 years ago, only 2 survived. and the rest of the Greeks. Twenty years later, Nikolaos Georgiadis reports that 1,000 Greek and 100 Ottoman families lived in the city.
On September 1, 1881, Tyrnavos was liberated by the Turks.
How to get there
How to move
What to see
Entertainment
Events
- Bourani. carnival of Dionysian origins
What will you buy
Where are you going to eat?
In the center there are several grills.
Where to go for coffee - drink
Where will you stay?
Communications
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