Pelasgia

Pelasgia is a town in the municipality of the same name in Phthiotis prefecture, Central Greece.

Its population in 2001 was 1,857 inhabitants, while that of the entire municipality 3,310.

Ruins just outside the village are thought to be the remains of ancient Larisa Kremaste, a settlement dating from at least the 4th-5th Century BC and inhabited until at least early Byzantine times. The substantial boundary walls of the ancient acropolis are still visible, and mosaics from an early Christian basilica have been uncovered a short distance away near the shore. The ancient settlement appears to be mentioned in Homer in connection with a tribe called the Pelasgians, from which the modern village derives its name.

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