Irlandos at 12:18, February 6, 2006

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| [[Prefecture]]: || [[Magnesia]]
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| [[Provinces of Greece|Province]]: || [[Province of Volos|Volos]]
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| Seat: || [[Anakassia Iolkou]]
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| Location: Latitude: Longitude:|| 39.4186/39°9'97 N lat.22.239/22°58'11' E long
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| Population: ([[2001]])  - Total  - Density¹  - Rank||    -/km² 
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| Elevation:  -lowest:  -centre:  -highest:|| [[Pagasetic Gulf]] and the [[Pagasetic Gulf]] 156 m(centre) about 300 to 400 m
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| [[List of postal codes in Greece|Postal code]]: || 385 00
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| [[Area codes in Greece|Area/distance code]]: || 11-30-[[Greece dialing code 24210|24210]] (030-24210)-7
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| [[YPES|Municipal code]]: || 3711
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| [[License plates in Greece|Car designation]]: || <code>BO</code>
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| 3-letter abbreviation: || IOL '''Iolcos'''
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| Website: || [http://www.magnesia.gr/dimoi/dimoi_iolkos.htm www.magnesia.gr/dimoi/dimoi_iolkos.htm]

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'''Iolcos''' (also known as '''Iolkos''' or '''Iolcus''', [[Greek language|Greek]]: Ιωλκός) was an ancient city in [[Thessaly]], central-eastern [[Greece]] (near the modern city of [[Volos]]). Today Iolcos is a small village, which has a school and a small square (''plateia''). Iolcos is also used as a name to describe a municipality that belongs in the province of Volos.

The small town of Anakassia is the centre of the municipality of Iolkos. Anakassia has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, banks, a post office and a square (''plateia'').

According to ancient Greek mythology [[Aeson]] was the rightful king of Iolcos, but his brother [[Pelias]] usurped the throne. It was Pelias who sent Aeson's son [[Jason]] and his [[Argonauts]] to look for the [[Golden Fleece]]. The ship [[Argo]] set sail from Iolcos with a crew of fifty demigods and princes under Jason's leadership in the 13th century B.C. Their mission was to reach [[Colchis]] in [[Aea]] at the eastern seaboard of the Black Sea and reclaim and bring back the Golden Fleece, a symbol of the opening of new trade routes. Along with the Golden Fleece Jason brought a wife, the sorceress [[Medea]], king [[Aeetes]]' daughter, granddaughter of the Sun, niece of [[Circe]], princess of Aea, and later queen of Iolkos, [[Corinth]] and Aea, and also slayer of her brother [[Apsyrtos]] and her two sons from Jason, indeed a tragic figure of a woman whose trials and tribulations were so artfully dramatized in the much staged [[Euripides]]' "Medea".

==Historical population==

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! Year !! Communal population !! Change (town) !! Municipal population 
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| [[1981]] || - || - 
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| [[1991]] || 287 || - || 2,415
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==Geographic position==

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<td width = 30% align="center">'''North:''' [[Makrinitsa]]</td>
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<td width = 10% align="center">'''West:''' [[Nea Ionia, Volos|Nea Ionia]]</td>
<td width = 35% align="center">'''Iolkos'''</td>
<td width = 30% align="center">'''East:''' [[Portaria]]</td>
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<td width = 30% align="center">'''South:''' [[Volos]]</td>
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==See also==

*[[Communities of Magnesia]]

{{Credit wikipedia}}
[[Category:Ancient Greek cities]]
[[Category:Cities and towns in Greece]]
[[Category:Magnesia]]

Iolkos - Revision history

Irlandos at 12:18, February 6, 2006