Eleftheres
Municipal unit in Greece
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Eleftheres (Greek: Ελευθερές, romanized: Eleftherés) is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio, of which it is a municipal unit.[2] The municipal unit has an area of 150.555 km2.[3] The seat of the municipality was Nea Peramos. The other villages in this municipal unit are Agios Andreas, Eleftheres, Elaiochori, Folia, Myrtofyto and Nea Iraklitsa.
Eleftheres
Ελευθερές | |
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Beach in the Eleftheres Municipality | |
Location within the regional unit | |
| Coordinates: 40°50′N 24°18′E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | East Macedonia and Thrace |
| Regional unit | Kavala |
| Municipality | Pangaio |
| Area | |
| • Municipal unit | 150.6 km2 (58.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Municipal unit | 8,647 |
| • Municipal unit density | 57.42/km2 (148.7/sq mi) |
| • Community | 1,279 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 64007 |
| Area code | 25940 |
| Vehicle registration | ΚΒ |
According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 300 Greek Christians and 300 Greek Muslims lived in the village in 1900.[4]