melissa (elia), greece

Mélissa (Greek: Μέλισσα) is a village and a community/commune in the municipality of Lechaina in Ilia, Greece. It was known as Zogka (Zonga) until the 1800s. The location is around 37.945/37°56'53' N and 21.372/21°22'20' E. The population is around 300. Its dialing code is 26230. Its elevation is 137 m. It is 7 km E of Lechaina, and 9 km W of Borsi. Ite commune includes the hamlet of Melissia which is just southeast on the other side of the valley.

Postal code: 270 52
Area code: 26230

Nearest places:

Agioi Theodoroi (west)
Ano Kourtesi (northwest)
Aetorrachi (east)
Melissia (south)
Olga (south)

Historical population:

Year !! Communal population !! Change
1981	595	-
1991	224	-371/62.35%
2001	328	105/46.88%

The village has a school in the west, a church named Agios Tryphonas and also a square, and a communal centre. The village is on a hilly setting lying just north of the ravine, and a small one to its east. It is connected by only one east-west paved road while others are accessed by gravel. It is an agricultural village with the majority live in rural areas. It is surrounded by a few forests and groves to the north. Outside the village has a spring in the west. In 1993, an evening fire burnt almost the entire commuity's worth of farmland, forest but didn't reached the entire village but cut off power supply for a day, but the streetlights weren't until about a week after. The community used to include the entire eastern half of the municipality, Agios Charalampos and Borsi

External links:

GTP - Melissa