Frixa

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Frixa (Greek: Φρίξα, before 1916: Ανεμοχωράκιον - Anemochorakion[2]) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Skillounta, Elis, Greece. The community includes the village Anemochoraki. Frixa is on a hill near the left bank of the river Alfeios, 2 km northeast of Skillountia, 7 km southeast of Olympia and 8 km northeast of Krestena.

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Frixa
Φρίξα
Frixa is located in Greece
Frixa
Frixa
Coordinates: 37°37′N 21°42′E
CountryGreece
Administrative regionWest Greece
Regional unitElis
MunicipalityAndritsaina-Krestena
Municipal unitSkillounta
Population
 (2021)[1]
  Community
301
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
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Population

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YearPopulation villageCommunity population
1981350-
1991430-
2001319523
2011200309
2021257301
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History

Phrixa was a hilltop town in the ancient land of Pisa. The town was already ruined in Pausanias' days (2nd century AD). It had a temple of Cydonian Athena. It was said that the temple was founded by Clymenus from Kydonia in Crete, a descendant of Heracles of Ida.[3]

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