Paranesti is a municipality

Communities and Municipalities of Greece

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 in the Rhodope Mountains

Rhodope Mountains

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 of northeastern Drama peripheral unit, Greece

Greece

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. It consists of two municipal units: Paranesti and Nikoforos. The largest villages of the municipal unit Paranesti are Paranésti (the municipal seat, pop. 619), Mesochório (228), Káto Thólos (163), Χágnanton (117), and Prasináda (100).

Municipality

The municipality Paranesti was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units (constituent communities in brackets):

• Nikiforos
  Nikiforos
  Nikiforos is a village and a former municipality in the Drama peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Paranesti, of which it is a municipal unit. The 2001 census reported a population of 4,279 inhabitants in the...
  
  (Adriani, Ano Pyxari, Nikiforos, Platania, Platanovrysi, Ptelea, Ypsili Rachi)
• Paranesti (Paranesti, Sili, Tholos)

External links

• Official website