Palamas
# Palamas

Palamas (Greek: Παλαμάς) is a town and a municipality in the Karditsa regional unit, Greece. Population 16,726 (2011). Palamas is located south-southwest of Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, northwest of Lamia, north of Sofades, east-northeast of Karditsa and east-southeast of Trikala. Palamas is linked with the road linking Karditsa and Larissa. It also serves roads with the GR-6 (Larissa - Trikala - Ioannina - Igoumenitsa) and Sofades. The Pineios River is to the north as well as the Trikala regional unit.

## Municipality

The municipality Palamas was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

* Fyllo
* Palamas
* Sellana

The municipality has an area of 382.722 $km^2,$ the municipal unit 154.077 $km^2.$

### Subdivisions

The municipal unit of Palamas is divided into the following communities:

* Agios Dimitrios
* Gorgovites
* Kalyvakia
* Koskina (Koskina, Psathochori)
* Markos
* Metamorfosi
* Palamas
* Vlochos (Vlochos, Lykorema)

## Population

| Year | Town | Municipal unit | Municipality |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1981 | 5,448 | - | - |
| 1991 | 6,010 | - | - |
| 2001 | 5,807 | 10,050 | - |
| 2011 | 5,745 | 8,903 | 16,726 |

## Notable people

* Manthos Falagas (born 1992), football player
